'I COULDN'T STOP CRYING'
Ian Huntley’s daughter reveals harrowing moment she discovered Soham child killer was her dad and had raped her mum
IAN Huntley's daughter has revealed the chilling moment she discovered her depraved dad had raped her mum and slaughtered two innocent schoolgirls.
Sammy Bryan found out the grisly truth after her mum Katie handed her a box containing newspaper cuttings about the crime.
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She said she couldn't stop crying as harrowing details were revealed to her about how Soham killer Huntley had murdered Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002.
Sammy, now 20, was just 17 when she found out how the monster had raped her mum.
She told Really's The Killer In My Family: "I thought I was ready. About ten mins later [my mum] came back in and asked me how I was feeling and if I was OK and I couldn't stop crying.
"The paper clippings told me what my mum had gone through, how she'd been abused and raped and things.
I cant really say there was anything more upsetting than the other
Huntley's daughter Sammy Bryan
"They told me about what she went through when she fell pregnant with me, being pushed down the stairs. They told me about the two murders, it told me about what supposedly happened that night to Holly and Jessica.
"Thinking back to it, I cant really say there was anything more upsetting than the other, it was all very hard to read."
'I DIDN'T WANT ANYONE TO KNOW'
Sammy told the TV show how she became "curious" about her dad but had never asked many questions as she didn't want to upset her mum or adopted father.
But as she got older, both her and Katie believed she was ready to finally find out about Huntley's crimes - although she was hesitant about others discovering who her father was.
She said: "I didn't want people knowing who my biological father was because I knew certain people had known who he was and they'd ask a lot of questions so I just wanted it to be something I'd keep to myself."
NO REMORSE
Sammy revealed in May last year how she had written to Huntley in prison to get answers why he murdered the two schoolgirls.
But school caretaker Huntley refused to discuss his motives and selfishly referred to the Soham murders as “the most horrendous day” of his life.
Sammy said at the time Huntley's response was proof he showed no remorse and vowed never to speak to her dad again.
She told Loose Women: “No. I don’t think it’s [the answer] good enough for everybody. I just wanted him to explain himself.
“I wouldn’t say I was angry, I was more disappointed.”
GRUESOME MURDERS
Holly and Jessica, both aged ten, went missing from a family barbecue in the Cambridgeshire village on August 4, 2002.
Huntley had lured the girls to his house and murdered them before dumping their bodies in a remote ditch, cutting off their clothes and torching their corpses.
The brute, a caretaker at the local Soham Village College, was arrested after the girls' bodies were discovered 13 days later.
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During a two-week appeal to find the girls, Huntley gave TV interviews and joined in searches while his then-girlfriend Maxine Carr gave him a false alibi.
Caging him for life in 2005, Judge Mr Justice Moses told Huntley he had shown “persistent cruelty” and “merciless cynicism” towards the girls and their families.
Carr was jailed for perverting the course of justice and released in 2004 with a new identity.
- The Killer In My Family airs on Really on Thursday at 10pm
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