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05/09/2006
Huntley treated for overdose
Soham child murderer Ian Huntley is being treated in hospital for a a drug overdose, after being found unconscious on the floor of his cell at Wakefield Prison.
It is under that Huntley, 32, was found in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Staff attempted to resuscitate him, before he was transferred to hospital, where he remains under heavy sedation.
Huntley is serving a life sentence for the murders of ten-year-old schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
The Prison Officers Association said that Huntley had recently been taken off suicide watch at the prison.
The former school caretaker had made an earlier suicide attempt in June 2003, while awaiting trial for the murders. He saved 29 anti-depressant pills in a box of teabags and was later found suffering a fit on the floor of his cell at Woodhill Prison, near Milton Keynes.
The Prison Service has now commissioned a review of the supervision of Huntley, which will be conducted by the head of its Standards Audit Unit.
Wakefield Prison has been criticised before when serial killer Harold Shipman hanged himself in his cell there in January 2004.
(KMcA)
It is under that Huntley, 32, was found in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Staff attempted to resuscitate him, before he was transferred to hospital, where he remains under heavy sedation.
Huntley is serving a life sentence for the murders of ten-year-old schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
The Prison Officers Association said that Huntley had recently been taken off suicide watch at the prison.
The former school caretaker had made an earlier suicide attempt in June 2003, while awaiting trial for the murders. He saved 29 anti-depressant pills in a box of teabags and was later found suffering a fit on the floor of his cell at Woodhill Prison, near Milton Keynes.
The Prison Service has now commissioned a review of the supervision of Huntley, which will be conducted by the head of its Standards Audit Unit.
Wakefield Prison has been criticised before when serial killer Harold Shipman hanged himself in his cell there in January 2004.
(KMcA)
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