Prisoned child killer joins Facebook

September 25, 2007

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The convicted murderer of two ten-year-old British girls Ian Huntley has joined the social networking site Facebook, prompting outraged members to set up a group on the site rallying against his profile.Ian Huntley is serving a life sentence in prison for the highly publicised double murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in the small English village of Soham in 2002.

Huntley’s profile has since been removed, but the Facebook online group, “Get Huntley Off Facebook” has got 646 members, and is growing.

The Daily Mail reported that the killer used his mother’s maiden name on his Facebook profile, which he had persuaded a female admirer to create.

Andre Smith of London, posted on the site “this is an online Plea to Facebook admins to remove the likes of Ian Huntley … from Facebook.”

Mr Smith also encourages users on the site to sign a petition to bring back public hanging and torture for serious offences.

“Huntley is just my first target. I am going to go through and rot all the evil people out for us to unite against. No doubt there are sick evil [pedophiles] and perverts on here who are released into society under our crazy laws.”

One member of Get Huntley Off Facebook group, Gail Penman, said it was hard to describe how sick she felt when she saw Huntley’s profile on the site.

“I am still shaking with rage. I can’t believe it. I’m shocked beyond belief, I still think about those girls. Imagine their family seeing that.”

Police officials said sites like myspace and facebook have become crime-fighting tools because criminals sometimes leave evidence of their crimes on the internet, giving police access to suspect information.

People think they have anonymity, but they don’t realise they leave an electronic trail.

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