Reporter who first interviewed Ian Huntley tells of why he went to police

“It wasn’t what they’d said that I thought was strange. It was what they hadn’t said,” Mr Farmer said of the interview on August 8 2002.

Soham killer Ian Huntley has died in hospital after he was attacked in the workshop of the maximum security Frankland prison by an inmate with a metal bar on February 26, the Press Association understands. Picture: PA/PA Wire

The first reporter to interview Ian Huntley before he was arrested on suspicion of murdering two 10-year-olds has told of what led him to report the former school caretaker to the police.

Journalist Brian Farmer, who worked for the Press Association in East Anglia at the time and had been reporting on the disappearance of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman on August 4 2002, told BBC News he went to speak to Huntley after police issued a list of last sightings of the girls.