Life for Briton over Malaysia sex abuse

Briton Richard Huckle jailed for Malaysia sex abuse

A British man has been jailed for life after admitting 71 charges of sex abuse against children in Malaysia aged between six months and 12 years old.

Police believe Richard Huckle, 30, from Ashford, Kent, abused up to 200 children from mainly poor communities.
The Old Bailey judge described a 60-page paedophile manual Huckle wrote as a "truly evil document" and said he must serve at least 23 years in jail.
A woman in the public gallery shouted; "1,000 deaths is too good for you".
In online posts, Huckle had bragged: "Impoverished kids are definitely much easier to seduce than middle-class Western kids."
Commenting on one of his victims, he boasted: "I'd hit the jackpot, a 3yo girl as loyal to me as my dog and nobody seemed to care."
How abuser Richard Huckle was caught
Malaysian reaction to Huckle's abuse

Paedophile's manual

He presented himself as a practising Christian and first visited Malaysia on a teaching gap year when he was 18 or 19. He then went on to groom children while doing voluntary work.
Sentencing Huckle, Judge Peter Rook QC said: "It is very rare indeed that a judge has to sentence sexual offending by one person on such a scale as this."
He added that Huckle's life "revolved around your obsession with your own sexual gratification by child sex abuse".
"It is also clear that, had you not been arrested, you planned to continue the same lifestyle using the expertise that you were keen to show off to and share with other abusers so as to continue your sexual exploitation of the children of such communities," he said.
The freelance photographer admitted the offences, which took place between 2006 and 2014, and was given 22 life sentences, with a minimum prison term of 23 years.

'No genuine remorse'

Investigators found more than 20,000 indecent pictures and videos of his assaults on children, which were shared with paedophiles worldwide through a website hidden in the so-called dark web.
He even tried to make a business out of his abuse by crowd-funding the release of the images and was compiling a paedophile's manual at the time of his arrest by the National Crime Agency in December 2014.
Ahead of his sentencing, Huckle claimed to a psychiatrist that he wanted to put his "madness" behind him and settle down with a south Indian woman.
But the court was shown a posting from 2013 in which he outlined his plan to marry one of his victims in order to help him abuse more children.
Judge Rook said: "In my view, you may well harbour feelings of regret but there is no feeling of genuine remorse in this case."

'Borders no barrier'

James Traynor from the NCA's child exploitation and online protection command said Huckle had "deliberately travelled to a part of the world where he thought he could abuse vulnerable children without being caught".
"He spent several years integrating himself into the community in which he lived, making himself a trusted figure. But he abused that trust in the worst possible way."
The NCA was able to use legislation that allows UK nationals to be prosecuted in the UK for offences that have been committed overseas.
The NCA has now referred itself to the police watchdog over the way it handled parts of its inquiry.
Huckle is known to have returned to the UK and attended two churches in Kent and London.
But the BBC has learned that the NCA only contacted the churches - which cannot be identified for legal reasons - last week, almost 18 months after Huckle was first arrested.
It says it has now referred that aspect of its investigation to the Independent Police Complaints Commission to see if it could have improved its response.

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