UK - Holly Wells, 10, & Jessica Chapman, 10, murdered, Soham, 4 August 2002

[Rusty Braincells]

The Sun (if it is a valid source), reports this evening that Huntley’s mother has agreed to switch off his life support.

 

[Skigh]

The Sun (if it is a valid source), reports this evening that Huntley’s mother has agreed to switch off his life support.

This has been reported in other papers including the telegraph and Mirror. The sun is a permitted source.

Ian Huntley has life support 'switched off' and is 'hours from death'

Soham murderer Ian Huntley had his life support switched off today and is hours away from dying after he was brutally attacked in HMP Frankland, it is claimed

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[Rusty Braincells]

This has been reported in other papers including the telegraph and Mirror. The sun is a permitted source.

Ian Huntley has life support 'switched off' and is 'hours from death'

Soham murderer Ian Huntley had his life support switched off today and is hours away from dying after he was brutally attacked in HMP Frankland, it is claimed

www.mirror.co.uk

Thank you for confirming and for the link, I’m somewhat surprised, I did think they would take longer over this. It sounds like he is not expected to survive and will die shortly, I would assume it was quite clear to doctors that he would not live.

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030050490529046675

 

[Sweeper2000]

Fingers crossed.

 

[elliefant]

BBC reporting the same

Soham murderer Ian Huntley taken off life support, BBC understands Soham murderer taken off life support and close to death, BBC understands

 

[MelmothTheLost]

I'd say there is a difference between 'not provide treatment which they consider futile or not to be in the interests of the patient', and to take a patient off from life support, if they are already in treatment. Why I claim this, is because I had to make a decision, whether I wanted a relative to be put on life support, or if I'd want that doctors would 'not provide treatment'. I chose the second alternative.

The law and medical practice will vary between jurisdictions but the position I stated earlier is what is done in the UK. The doctors make a decision whether to continue or withdraw treatment based on their assessment of the patient's chance of recovery and/or quality of life. In the vast majority of such cases, next of kin accept that judgment and treatment is ended and the patient dies. The famous cases which hit the news, eg Alfie Evans and Charlie Gard, do so precisely because the next of kin vehemently oppose the doctors' proposals and it leads to a lengthy and expensive legal case.

From memory, I can only recall two cases where the courts have ruled against the doctors - on Anthony Bland and Charlotte Wyatt.

In Bland's case, the doctors wanted to keep him on life support but his family wanted him to be allowed to die, and the family won. Bland had been a victim in the Hillsborough football stadium disaster and suffered massive hypoxic brain damage in the crush.

In Wyatt's case, Charlotte was born catastrophically brain damaged and with other disabilities. The doctors wanted to withdraw treatment and to let nature take its course but her fanatically religious parents won their legal action to prevent this happening and force the doctors to provide treatment which they believed to be unethical. Her parents insisted they wanted to be able to take her home and look after her despite her disabilities, but after the first weekend of doing so they returned her to the hospital and refused to have anything more to do with her. They split up not long after.

 

[Yellowbelly]

Ian Huntley dies.

Soham murderer Ian Huntley dies after prison attack

Huntley, who was serving a life sentence for murdering two schoolgirls, had been on life support following an attack by another inmate.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Sarahlou]

I always thought he should have got a whole life sentence. I know it was unlikely he'd be released after 40 years but it's relief that he can't hurt anyone again now.

 

[Yellowbelly]

I always thought he should have got a whole life sentence. I know it was unlikely he'd be released after 40 years but it's relief that he can't hurt anyone again now.

If somebody committed a similar crime today, they would get a whole life tariff. The law around sentencing for murder has changed somewhat since the early noughties.

 

[CoverMeCagney]

Dead.

Hope he truly suffered in his last few days on earth.

 

[MollyHarps]

I hope he burns in hell.

My thoughts today are with the families of Holly & Jessica who have to see his face plastered all over the news again no doubt it’ll bring feelings of that day rushing back.

 

[Bickles]

I wish for peace for the families of Jessica and Holly. Those lovely little girls will never be forgotten, but the families don't need any press intrusion, so I hope that's respected x

 

[AtticusPip]

Holly & Jessica x

 

[Sweeper2000]

Thats an unexpected birthday treat for me.

Holly and jessica.

 

[JayBix]

I was hopeful he would survive with all his faculties but without any hearing or vision whatsoever & that he would live a long life in that condition never knowing what happened to him & never seeing/talking to another person again, just a total blank void in misery, fear & confusion for another 30 odd years. That would have been nightmarish but still a billion times milder than what he did to those girls & their families.

I just hope the iron bar didn't suffer too much.

 

[Sweeper2000]

I was hopeful he would survive with all his faculties but without any hearing or vision whatsoever & that he would live a long life in that condition never knowing what happened to him & never seeing/talking to another person again, just a total blank void in misery, fear & confusion for another 30 odd years. That would have been nightmarish but still a billion times milder than what he did to those girls & their families.

I just hope the IRON BAR didn't suffer too much.

I heard its got a cracking stiff upper lip.

 

[Skigh]

I was hopeful he would survive with all his faculties but without any hearing or vision whatsoever & that he would live a long life in that condition never knowing what happened to him & never seeing/talking to another person again, just a total blank void in misery, fear & confusion for another 30 odd years. That would have been nightmarish but still a billion times milder than what he did to those girls & their families.

I just hope the iron bar didn't suffer too much.

His care would have cost the British taxpayers millions of pounds for 30 years of care.
Much better he is dead.

 

[Jenesaisquoi]

Holly and Jessica

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030404063708250209