A prison inmate has been charged with the murder of Soham killer Ian Huntley, police have said.

Anthony Russell, 43, will appear at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates' Court via video link on Wednesday, a spokesman for Durham Constabulary said.

Huntley died on Saturday following an attack at HMP Frankland in Durham at the end of February.

The former school caretaker murdered 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002 in the Cambridgeshire town of Soham.

Police said: "Emergency services were called to reports of an assault in the workshop on the morning of Thursday, February 26."

Huntley, 52, was taken to hospital with serious injuries where he died nine days later, police added.

He had been serving a life sentence, with a minimum term of 40 years, for murdering the schoolgirls.

The Ministry of Justice has previously said Huntley's crime "remains one of the most shocking and devastating cases in our nation's history, and our thoughts are with their families".

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