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FACTFILE
4th August 2002, .Holly Wells and Jessica
Chapman, both 10, disappeared from their home town of
Soham in Cambridgeshire
17th August 2002, .The
girls bodies were found in a ditch by the fence at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk.
20th August
2002, Ian Huntley is arrested and charged with two
murders.
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Monday 3rd November 2003,
Ian Huntley & Maxine Carr appeared at the Old Bailey in
London, accused of abducting and murdering Holly and
Jessica..
The first two days consisted of legal and procedural
issues and included swearing in the Jury. the trial proper
began on Wednesday 5th November 2003.
Wednesday 17th December 2003. Huntley sentenced
to life imprisonment for double murder.
After his arrest Huntley was sectioned under the mental
health act and was being held at a secure unit, and
underwent extensive psychiatric tests.
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14 September 2005
Huntley was scalded with boiling water when another inmate
attacked him.
29 September 2005,
High Court Judge Mr Justice Moses, who presided over
Huntley's original trial, ruled that he should spend 40
years in prison before he can be considered for parole.
5 September
2006,
Huntley was found unconscious in his prison cell, thought
to have taken an overdose.
27 September
2007,
Huntley managed to get hold of enough drugs to take an
overdose, the third occasion Huntley has done this. He was
taken to Pinderfields hospital in West Yorkshire and
returned shortly afterwards to HMP Wakefield
April 2007 Hailey
Giblin, from Lincolnshire, was awarded a claim for civil
damages against Huntley after a court ruled that he had
molested her when she was aged 11. Huntley had admitted
that in the summer of 1997 he had taken her from the
street she lived in, to an orchard where she was subject
to a sexual attack at his hands.
28 January
2008,
Huntley was Moved to
HMP Frankland
prison in
Durham
after it was calculated that it was costing £1,128 per day
to keep Huntley on 24 hour suicide watch.
March 2010,
Huntley's throat slashed by fellow inmate
Damien Fowkes.
at HMP Frankland. Huntley was in hospital
for three days and needed 21 stitches, the wound
was 7in (18cm) long.
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