Ian Huntley’s daughter pleads with him to ‘reveal truth’ about murders | UK News

The daughter of notorious killer Ian Huntley is pleading to meet him and help unveil the truth behind the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

Samantha Bryan, 25, only discovered her father was one of Britain’s worst killers by mistake when she was a teen – but has now asked her father to give peace to the families of the Soham murder victims.

She asked Huntley in a letter: ‘If my existence means anything to you, I’m pleading with you to finally reveal the whole truth about the murders of Holly and Jessica. It’s time that everyone was given some peace.’

On Sunday, August 4, the Wells were hosting a barbecue for friends. That morning, Holly’s pal Jessica, whom she had known since nursery, came over to give her a necklace she had bought on a recent holiday.

They vanished that evening, and trails went cold until an interview with the media saw Huntley found out and the two teens’ bodies found badly burned.

Ms Bryan now lives in fear that her father will take his secrets to the grave after suffering health issues, prison attacks, and suicide attempts behind bars, she told the Mail on Sunday.

Ever since Ms Bryan found out Huntley was her dad, she said: ‘I have been haunted by the death of Holly and Jessica.

‘I’ve had counselling and it has affected everything from my jobs to relationships. I have suffered constant nightmares.

‘For years I’ve been haunted by the fear that a faceless demon would clamber through my bedroom window at night or that he’d come and find me, or try to kill me when I was all alone.

‘But the monster who walks through my dreams wasn’t a figment of an overactive imagination. He was my real-life nightmare. When everything is quiet in the dead of night, the thought of him creeps into my mind, triggering the fearful prospect that one day he’ll find me.’

Both Huntley and his 25-year-old fiancée Maxine Carr were both jailed for the murders of Jessica and Holly.

Huntley had told reporters he had been washing his dog in the front garden of 5 College Close when the two friends stopped by to ask how she was.

He also commented: ‘To think I was the last friendly face that those girls have spoken to before something happened to them.’

Debbie Davies, then deputy editor of the Ely Standard, recalls feeling ‘sick’ when it later emerged Huntley had already murdered the girls by the time she stopped by to hand a ‘missing’ flyer to Carr.

Carr also set alarm bells ringing when she kept referring to the girls in the past tense while there was still hope of finding them alive.

On August 17, nearly two weeks after they vanished, their bodies were found lying side by side and badly burned near RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.

Ms Bryan said: ‘Nothing can ever change what has happened. There is absolutely no forgiveness at all.

‘But because he has suffered health problems and I’ve read about attacks in prison, I fear he may take his secrets to the grave, like the Yorkshire Ripper or Myra Hindley.’

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