UK teen googles child killer for school project, finds out he's her biological father

Soham, England: Weeping in heartbreak and anger, 18-year-old Samantha Bryan revealed how she found out that a man convicted for murdering two minor girls was in fact her biological father.

Samantha was just 14-year-old when she was assigned a school project during her citizenship class in which all the children were given a list of criminal names to research on.

While researching about notorious criminals, Samantha came across an unfamiliar name -- Ian Huntley.

“When I got to the name Ian Huntley it meant absolutely nothing to me, nothing at all,” Samantha was quoted as saying.

As a part of her class project, Samantha said that she typed in his name in Google and started scrolling through his photographs and reading headlines that branded Huntley as a 'cold-blooded child killer', according to a report in the Daily Mail.

While she was reading more about Huntley, Samantha came across a pixelated photograph of a woman with a young girl. Samantha took no time to discover that the woman in the photo was her own mother and the little girl standing besides her mother was herself -- at the age of four.

"'Why was that picture there? What did he have to do with me? I clicked off the picture immediately. I began to shake, I couldn't stop the tears,” a teary-eyed Samantha said.

Samantha already knew that the man she calls 'dad' is not her real father. Her mother Katie Webber married Martin Bryan several years ago and Bryan had also legally adopted Samantha two years after the marriage.

Her mother married Bryan after she walked out of her previous marriage after being subject to physical abuse. Her real father had beaten her mother, raped her when she was pregnant and even thrown her down the stairs in order to kill the child she was carrying.

Her mother had always been telling her about her real father being 'a very bad man who had hurt two young girls.'

Samantha did not take much time to realise that that the cold-blooded murderer she was researching on was that very bad man -- her biological father.

Ian Huntley was convicted for murdering two school girls -- Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002.

Holly and Jessica who were hacked to death by child killed Ian Huntley in 2002 at a barbeque party in Soham. (Photo: YouTube)

Huntley was charged with two counts of murder and was sentenced to a term of minimum 40 years in prison.

Samantha said that her real father was a murderer who took others' lives and unlike him -- she wants become a paramedic and save lives.

“I try not to even say his name, as to do that is to acknowledge his existence. I hate him. He’s never been my dad, he’s nothing more than a sperm donor. To know he is genetically connected to me sickens me,” said Samantha.

“I’m speaking out, as I refuse to be ashamed for existing, otherwise I’d become just another of his victims. To acknowledge him as anything else would be to give him a power I will never let him hold over me. I didn’t cause the pain, suffering and anguish he has caused to so many people, although I think of his victims and their families. I feel so terribly sorry for Holly and Jessica’s parents for what he’s done. Especially with young sisters myself. Ever since I found out about the girls I’ve thought about what they must have felt,” she further added.