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Ian Huntley's Prison Is Offering Chemical Castration To Inmates

Ian Huntley's Prison Is Offering Chemical Castration To Inmates

It's an attempt to stop re-offending.

Michael Minay

Michael Minay

The prison which holds inmates Ian Huntley and Levi Bellfield offers the chemical castration to the prisoners.

HMP Frankland, in Durham, is giving the inmates the opportunity to take drugs in the hope that it will reduce re-offending.

Chemical castration involves taking a course of drugs which will reduce sexual activity, and libido, for those who take it.

Professor Don Grubin told the Mail Online that the programme was established specifically at the prison because it houses some of the nation's most high risk sex-offenders.

Ian Huntley is in the Durham prison serving two life sentences after he was found guilty of the Soham Murders.

Huntley, with the assistance of his girlfriend, Maxine Carr, had originally avoided prison for the murders of 11-year-old girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, after she provided a false alibi.

Ian Huntley. Credit: PA

Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Credit: PA

The school caretaker was arrested in August 2002, following soil environment analysis, and although making attempts to appear insane, was judged both 'physically and mentally' sound at the times of the murders.

Bellfield was convicted of the murder of Milly Dowler back in 2011, a 13-year-old schoolgirl. She went missing in 2002, and was later discovered in Yateley Heath Woods, Hampshire.

Levi Bellfield. Credit: PA

Milly Dowler. Credit: PA

Although convicted six years ago, Bellfield, according to Surrey Police, only admitted to the abduction, rape and murder of Dowler in 2016. His solicitor, however, is requesting proof of this from the police.

The Sunday People claim that neither have signed up to the chemical castration at the prison.

Professor Grubin said of the two high-profile inmates: "Their level of sexual arousal is so high that they find it difficult to engage in psychological treatment programmes.

"In others their level of arousal may be the cause of them getting themselves in trouble in the prison."

The scheme is run through NHS England and the National Offender Management Service.

Grubin added: "The principle is to enable sex offenders to better manage their sexual arousal and behaviour. It is run on medical grounds and not as a risk management - although reduction in risk is typically a beneficial side effect."

Source: Mail Online, Psychology Today, and The Mirror

Featured Image Credit: PA

Topics: Prison