LONDON: British paedophile Richard Huckle was sentenced to life in prison by a London court for abusing 23 Malaysian and Cambodian babies and children for over almost a decade.
Huckle, 30, stood in the dock at London’s Old Bailey court with his hands clasped together as if in prayer as he was told he would have to serve at least 25 years behind bars for his crimes against impoverished victims aged six months to 11 years.
Judge Peter Rook had handed Huckle 22 life sentences after he pleaded guilty to 71 counts of child sex offences.
However, the sentences were to be served concurrently. The prolific offender has already spent 488 days in jail, so he only faces more than 23 years behind bars before a parole board can consider his release.
“It is very rare indeed that a judge has to sentence sexual offending by one person on such a scale as this,” said Rook.
As Huckle was led away after the sentencing, a woman sitting in the public gallery shouted, “a thousand deaths is too good for you”.
Huckle was found with over 20,000 indecent images, more than 1,000 of which showed him committing offences including the rape of children, on his computer and camera when he was arrested at Gatwick Airport in 2014.
The laptop contained a ledger in which he detailed the abuse of 191 victims, but officers were unable to press charges on all cases as there was no photographic evidence.
Huckle posted pictures of the abuse of boys and girls on the website True Love Zone (TLZ).
He boasted of his crimes online and had written a 60-page manual advising other paedophiles on how to abuse children.
The London court heard Huckle abused his victims over a period of nine years between March 2006 and December 2014. All the crimes took place in Malaysia, apart from the first incident which involved the abuse of a two-year-old child during a visit to Cambodia.
Rook cited a “chilling quote” from the manual, in which Huckle said “impoverished kids are definitely much easier to seduce than middle-class Western kids”.
“It is a truly evil document that speaks volumes about the scale of your delusion,” Rook added.
“Relentlessly, you preyed upon the very young – pre-pubescent vulnerable children from a minority ethnic community into which you ingratiated yourself.”
The judge said one of the most aggravating features of the case was that Huckle targeted and groomed impoverished children and their families, seeking to impress them with his relative wealth and status as a Westerner.
“Your offending behaviour became entrenched in your everyday life,” he added.
The judge said the manual was a “truly evil document proselytising paedophilia” and that Huckle had intended this to become a commercial enterprise. — Agencies
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