Police have shared an update on the conditon of infamous child murderer Ian Huntley after he was attacked in prison.<\/p>\n
The 52-year-old was reportedly struck multiple a metal bar to the head while he was in the work shop at HMP Frankland in County Durham.<\/p>\n
He was rushed to the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle following the attack, which occurred on Thursday (February 26). He still remains at the hospital in a serious condition.<\/p>\n
His injuries were so severe that he will not return to Frankland jail in Durham<\/a>, instead he is set to be moved to Ashworth Secure Hospital. “The most likely destination for him if he gets out of hospital is Ashworth,” said a source. “His injuries are such that he is unlikely to Frankland, at least initially.”<\/p>\n Triple murderer Anthony Russell has been named as the main suspect. However police and prison officials are yet to formally confirm this. He was so close to death after the assault that he had to travel by road rather than by air to hospital.<\/p>\n A paramedic and a doctor flew to Frankland in Durham and stabilised him at the scene. They placed him in an induced coma because of the severity of his injuries.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Durham Constabulary<\/a> said on Wednesday: “There has been no change in the 52-year-old man\u2019s condition overnight \u2013 he remains in hospital in a serious condition.”<\/p>\n Ensure our latest headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search by making us a Preferred Source. Click here to activate<\/a> or add us as your Preferred Source in your Google search settings.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n This is a Breaking News story. You\u2019ll be more likely to see our stories when any big news breaks in future by <\/b>simply by clicking this link<\/a><\/u><\/b>. You can also join The Mirror\u2019s <\/b>WhatsApp Community<\/a><\/u><\/b> or follow us on <\/b>Google News<\/a><\/u><\/b>, <\/b>Flipboard<\/a><\/u><\/b>, <\/b>Apple News<\/a><\/u><\/b>, <\/b>TikTok<\/a><\/u><\/b>, <\/b>Snapchat<\/a><\/u><\/b>, <\/b>Instagram<\/a><\/u><\/b>, <\/b>Twitter<\/a><\/u><\/b>, <\/b>Facebook<\/a><\/u><\/b>, <\/b>YouTube<\/a><\/u><\/b> and <\/b>Threads<\/a><\/u><\/b> – or <\/b>visit The Mirror homepage<\/a><\/u><\/b>.<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police have shared an update on the conditon of infamous child murderer Ian Huntley after he was attacked in prison. The 52-year-old was reportedly struck multiple a metal bar to … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4354,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions\/4354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}