THE mother of Soham murderer Ian Huntley’s child branded him an “evil, spineless coward” for the “lies” he wrote to their daughter.
Katie Bryan, 43, spoke of her horror after Samantha, 26, who is Huntley’s biological child, was sent a prison letter claiming that he treated her mum “with nothing but love”.
Huntley, who killed ten-year-old schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002, has never met Samantha as Katie fled their home while pregnant.
Katie, of Sheffield, says she was groomed into underage sex, raped, had her hair cut off and was pushed down stairs while pregnant after she started a sexual relationship with him aged 15.
In the letter to her daughter, which was exclusively revealed in The Sun on Sunday last week, Huntley denied the allegations, writing: “I treated her with nothing but love, without so much as a single act of violence.”
Katie, who has waived her right to anonymity, accused the double murderer, currently serving a life sentence at HMP Frankland, of “trying to rewrite history”.
She said: “He uses the word ‘love’ for what we had. It was definitely the opposite. This is evidence he is not rehabilitated.
“It proves he’s still a manipulative monster.
“When I read his pack of lies I felt nothing but rage that he has tried to whitewash the horror of what he did to me.
“He raped me. Another time I burned his tea and to punish me he made me eat cat food. The final straw came when I was pregnant and he punched me in the stomach and pushed me down the stairs.
“I left him for the sake of Sammy. She gave me the courage to leave.”
Katie said she felt Huntley was trying to exact revenge because she had found the strength to flee.
She added: “I feel like he’s still trying to get to me from the inside. It’s about control. I got up and walked away and he didn’t like that.
“They should lock his cell door and throw away the key.”
The disappearance and murders of Holly and Jessica in Soham, Cambs, sparked one of the largest hunts in British criminal history.
Their bodies were found after two weeks, leading to a manhunt for their killer, which ended with the arrest of former school caretaker Huntley.
He was found guilty in December 2003.
