{"id":2984,"date":"2026-02-27T14:33:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:56","slug":"infamous-child-killer-fighting-for-life-after-prison-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=2984","title":{"rendered":"Infamous child killer \u201cfighting for life\u201d after prison attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"282\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ian Huntley<\/span><\/span>, who is serving a life sentence for the 2002 murders of <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Holly Wells<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Jessica Chapman<\/span><\/span>, is reportedly \u201cfighting for life\u201d after being attacked in prison at <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">HM Prison Frankland<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"284\" data-end=\"640\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The 52-year-old was airlifted to hospital after another inmate attacked him around 9am on February 26, allegedly leaving him severely injured. Huntley is serving a minimum 40-year life sentence for the 2002 Soham murders. Reports indicate he has been attacked by inmates multiple times in recent years, with one previous incident requiring hospitalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Ian Huntley, who is serving a life sentence for the 2002 murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, is reportedly \u201cfighting for life\u201d after being <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=2984\" title=\"Infamous child killer \u201cfighting for life\u201d after prison attack\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2986,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions\/2986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}