Soham murderer Ian Huntley was killed by a blunt head injury inflicted in a prison attack, an inquest has heard.
The 52-year-old was struck multiple times with a metal bar at HMP Frankland in Durham on 26 February and died nine days later at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary.
The former school caretaker had been serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 40 years for murdering 10-year-old best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in 2002.
Opening an inquest into Huntley’s death, County Durham and Darlington senior coroner Jeremy Chipperfield said his further inquiry would be suspended pending criminal proceedings.
