Murderer Ian Huntley wants to change gender so he can live in a women's prison
Ever since school caretaker Ian Huntley was found guilty of the 2002 murders of 10-year-old school girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, he has been serving time in Frankland Prison, County Durham.
But according to new reports from The Daily Star, the convicted murderer is now seeking a gender reassignment so he can live a more "cushy" life in a women's prison instead.
The paper, which reportedly discovered the news after speaking to a former inmate from the same prison as Huntley, claims he intends to start wearing women's clothes, underwear and make-up in order to convince doctors he wants to undergo a physical transformation.
If, after undergoing a series of intense psychological assessments, doctors find that an inmate's desire to become transgender is genuine, they will become eligible for a £100,000 gender reassignment operation on the NHS.
No formal request has been made to the prison at this stage for gender reassignment, however, and the Ministry of Justice has declined to comment on the issue.
According to the source, "he knows he's a marked man while he's in Frankland and he believes his only hope of a cushy life is to become a woman."
And other prisoners have also previously commented on his odd behaviour in prison, with one saying: "He has constant ups and downs. It's like he's bipolar. On a high he'll walk the corridors, mocking other prisoners and acting the big man."
But it can all change in a flash, apparently.
"You won't hear a peep from him for days. He'll go into a long self-pitying depressive episode. Every few months he'll tell the guards he's suicidal."
Ian Huntley was found guilty of killing Holly and Jessica, who attended a school nearby to the one he worked at in Soham, Cambridgeshire, when the pair went out early one evening to buy sweets in August 2002.
When the young girls walked past Huntley's rented house in, he invited them in, telling them that his girlfriend Maxine Carr - who worked as a teaching assistant at the girls' school - was also in. In actual fact, Maxine was away visiting relatives at the time, and Huntley proceeded to kill both the girls.
Huntley had a history of sexual interest in young girls, and has attempted suicide while in jail.
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