School caretaker who killed 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002 was reportedly assaulted with metal bar

• August 2002: the summer we watched a senseless tragedy unfold in Soham

The child killer Ian Huntley has died in hospital, just over a week after being attacked at a maximum security prison.

The former school caretaker killed Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, both aged 10, in Soham, Cambridgeshire on 4 August 2002. The girls had left a family barbecue to buy sweets.