Trusted contacts, as well as the entire town council and a vicar, have all declined to talk about him.
But among those who have spoken anonymously, some see Huntley’s death as poetic justice, a blessing in disguise.
For others, it is a catastrophic failure by the Prison Service as he should be spending the full sentence – life with a minimum term of 40 years – behind bars.
Only Charlotte Cane, the Liberal Democrat MP for Ely and East Cambridgeshire, was willing to speak on camera.
She says of Huntley: “He clearly didn’t want to serve his full life sentence; he clearly found it difficult.
“But, in many ways, I don’t really care about him anymore.
“It’s the people who suffered because of him, they’re the people who matter.”
