India, Feb. 27 -- Ian Huntley, the former school caretaker serving life for the 2002 murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, has been attacked at HMP Frankland. The 52-year-old was bludgeoned with a makeshift weapon in a prison workshop on Thursday and hospitalized with significant head injuries.

Holly and Jessica were best friends. They vanished after leaving a family barbecue in Soham, near Cambridge, on August 4, 2002. Their disappearance sparked one of the largest missing person searches in British history.

Their bodies were found two weeks later in a ditch near RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. They had been asphyxiated.

Who is Ian Huntley? Ian Huntley was a cruel and calculating man. At the time, he worked as a caretake...