Child killer Ian Huntley 'wants to apologise' to victims' parents

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Huntley was jailed in 2003 for murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman
Despite never showing remorse for killings he's said to want to apologise
Inmate at HMP Frankland claims he also wants to say sorry to Maxine Carr
Claims he walks around prison in Manchester United jersey just like victims

By Alexander Robertson For Mailonline

Published: 17:23 EST, 6 August 2016 | Updated: 19:44 EST, 6 August 2016

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Child killer Ian Huntley wants to apologise to the family of the schoolgirls he murdered

Child killer Ian Huntley says he wants to apologise to the family of the schoolgirls he murdered.

Huntley was jailed in 2003 for the murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire in a crime that shocked the UK.

He has seemingly never shown remorse for killing the two 10-year-olds and denied murdering them during his trial, claiming both deaths were an accident.

However, according to The Mirror, the former school caretaker is said to have confessed to a fellow prisoner: 'I lost control of my mind.

'I would like to explain to them what I did. I wish I hadn’t done it.'

Despite the apparent change in heart, Huntley is said to walk around the jail in a Manchester United jersey, similar to those worn by the two girls before they died.

A source at HMP Frankland in Durham also claims the killer wants to apologise to former girlfriend Maxine Carr, who was also jailed for providing him with a fake alibi.

Lifelong friends Holly and Jessica had been at a family barbecue in August 2002, when they went to walk to a nearby shop for sweets. Then they vanished.

For 13 days their frantic parents prayed and police launched one of the biggest inquiries ever mounted.

Throughout, Huntley, a caretaker at the girls’ school, and his partner, their teaching assistant, Maxine Carr, gave endless media interviews appealing for the safe return of ‘two of the brightest, loveliest little girls in the world’.

Huntley was jailed in 2003 for the murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire in a crime that shocked the UK

Carr even showed off an end-of-term card the girls had sent her, covered in loving comments and kisses.

A wan-faced Huntley befriended the media because he had a sinister motive: his need to know the details of the police inquiry.

For the truth was that he had lured the girls into the home he shared with Carr, as they passed by.

He has never fully revealed what took place there, but within an hour both girls were dead.

Then he hid their bodies near RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, six miles away, and later returned to set fire to them.

A source at HMP Frankland in Durham also claims the killer wants to apologise to former girlfriend Maxine Carr, who was also jailed for providing him with a fake alibi

In court, he would lamely claim that he accidentally knocked Holly into a filled bath while helping her deal with a nosebleed, and she drowned.

When Jessica began to scream he insisted he ‘accidentally’ strangled her while stifling her cries.

Carr, although not implicated in the murder, gave him an alibi insisting she was with him.

When he and Carr finally faced trial in December 2003, Huntley was sentenced to two life terms, with a minimum 40-year tariff.

Carr received a three-and-a-half-year sentence for perverting the course of justice. She was released in May 2004, given a new identity and has since had a child of her own.