“He will be living in a nightmare.” This was how a former prison governor, speaking on Sky News this afternoon, described the kind of life that Ian Huntley will be leading in jail. The serious attack on the Soham murderer — his throat was slashed by a fellow inmate at Frankland Jail on Sunday — has attracted plenty of coverage, none of it (as far as I can see) tinged by the tiniest bit of sympathy for him.
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