In a prison recording leaked to The Sun, the Soham killer says the attacker 'came in with a razor blade on a toothbrush'
SOHAM killer Ian Huntley has revealed that a violent convict with a blade tried to slit his throat for the second time.
In a prison recording leaked to The Sun, the beast who murdered ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002 said he fought off the latest attacker inside HMP Frankland, Co Durham, last May.
Huntley said that a violent prisoner armed with a makeshift “shank” knife tried to kill him in his cell.
In a prison recording leaked to The Sun, the Soham killer says the attacker “came in with a razor blade on a toothbrush”.
Details of the alleged incident last May have never been made public.
It came seven years after another inmate tried to slit the monster’s throat at Frankland maximum security prison, Co Durham.
Huntley explains on tape: “There was an attempt on my life last year.
“I have no problems telling you his name, it was a prisoner who tried to kill me. A guy called Simon Maskrey.
“He came into my cell armed with a weapon and tried to cut my throat.
“I managed to kick him in the chest and then to the stomach. I took the weapon off him and he was on the floor.
“At that point, one of my friends turned up and I said, ‘He has got a weapon’, just as this Simon was getting back to his feet.
“This Simon then looked at him then looked back at me and then my friend grabbed him from behind.
“Shortly afterwards staff arrived.”
Sources said Maskrey, 42, is serving six years for GBH.
Huntley — who killed Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, both ten, in Soham, Cambs, in 2002 — has long been the target of other lags seeking notoriety by murdering him.
On the tape, he says that Maskrey was in debt to a rival and wanted a jail transfer.
Huntley adds: “He came in with a razor blade on a toothbrush. Other than that, no, no problems at all.
“He was a bad debtor, he had got himself into an awful lot of debt and wanted to get shipped out the prison. It did not work, he is still in the prison.
“Basically he got beat up by me which has caused him a lot of embarrassment in the workshop and he did not get out the prison so he ended up very badly off.
“He is now on another wing.”
Sources said Huntley was saved by the rapid response of highly-trained prison staff who were able to grab Maskrey before he could get his hands on the weapon again and lead him away.
Huntley almost died in the previous blade attack when prisoner Damien Fowkes tried to cut his throat with a shank in 2010.
Huntley had 21 stitches which left him with a scar from his jugular to the other side of his windpipe.
He says: “It was 2mm away from my jugular. The only thing I could think of was get a message to my family to say I was OK.”
On tape, Huntley — who has made at least three suicide attempts in jail — reveals: “There have only been two or three occasions during my time on this wing when my crime has been referenced in a vicious way.
“By and large I get on with most of the people on this wing.
“You are always going to get people who won’t talk to you because of why you are in prison. But we have all committed horrendous crimes and we all have victims and I think none of us are in a position to judge anyone else. Most are sensible to realise that.
“Frankland, in terms of location, is not ideal by any stretch of the imagination. I used to see my family every single week. I have not had a visit in over three years and that is very, very difficult.”
He goes on to describe Frankland as a “very good prison” and says “staff do the absolute best they can with limited resources”. But he adds: “Don’t get me wrong, every prison you go in is very, very dangerous, there is no safe place in prison. I am a Cat A prisoner, there are really only five prisons I can go to in the high-security state.
“Wakefield was corrupt, Wakefield was horrendous, and this is a world apart, it’s a much better prison.
Huntley says that if he could leave prison for one day, he would go to his mum’s for Sunday lunch.
HUNTLEY was banned from ordering his favourite fish and chip takeaways after being stripped of privileges over his leaked prison confession.
Sources said he was hauled in by HMP Frankland’s Governor Norman Griffin and given a dressing down.
In the recording obtained by The Sun, the Soham killer had revealed how he saved up his earnings from working as a painter and decorator at the prison to buy fish and chips because the food was so bad.
He adds “I feel lonely with the only one with the Huntley name.
“I feel it just adds to the whole horrific nature of what I have done and the consequences, that my family have had to change their name.
“People have often said to me, ‘Why don’t you change your name?’
“I’ve said because I’ve done what I’ve done and it’s something I have got to live with, and if I change my name it’s like trying to run away from it and hide.”
The Sun told how Huntley, who is serving two life sentences, made a series of confessions during the recording — the first time he has been heard speaking in more than a decade.
He begged for forgiveness for the murders of Holly and Jessica and apologised for the immense pain he caused through his crimes, saying: “I think about them every day.”.
He says on the tape: “I am genuinely, genuinely sorry and it breaks my heart when it is reported I have no remorse; that I relish something.
"I do not. I can’t change anything. I cannot remove that day from history; what I have done.”
“I know those girls would be 26 this year with families of their own, jobs and lives.
“I thought about them when they were turning 21 and when they were turning 18.”
Huntley also says he wished ex lover Maxine Carr — who has since remarried and is living under a secret identity - “every happiness”.
