Richard Huckle

Richard Huckle
Richard Huckle
	Huckle's mugshot
Born	Richard William Huckle; 14 May 1986; Ashford, Kent, England
Died	13 October 2019 (aged 33); HMP Full Sutton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Cause of death	Strangulation and stab wounds (torture murder)
Education	The Harvey Grammar School, South Kent College, Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University College
Criminal charges	Convicted of 71 counts of serious sexual assault against children ranging from 6 months to 12 years old. The charges include: 14 counts of rape of a child under the age of 13; 5 counts of digital penetration of a child under the age of 13; 31 counts of sexual assault against a child under the age of 13; 6 counts of grooming a child; 13 counts of taking/making indecent images of children related to the 20,000 images on his laptop; 1 count of advertising indecent images of children; 1 count of arranging or facilitating child sex offences; A further 20 offences lay on file.
Criminal penalty	Life imprisonment (minimum term of 25 years)
Criminal status	Deceased

Richard William Huckle (14 May 1986 – 13 October 2019) was an English serial child sex offender. He was arrested by Britain's National Crime Agency in 2014 after a tip-off from the Australian Federal Police and convicted in 2016 of 71 charges of sexual offences against children, committed while he posed as a Christian teacher and a freelance photographer in Malaysia.

The enormity of the charges against him has led to him being described by the press as Britain's most depraved paedophile. On 6 June 2016, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of twenty-five years before he would be eligible for parole.

On 13 October 2019, Huckle was subjected to a prolonged torture murder in which he was tied up, beaten, strangled, sexually assaulted, and repeatedly stabbed; a blade was also lodged in his brain via the nose. On 13 January 2020, a fellow inmate, 29-year-old Paul Fitzgerald, was charged with Huckle's murder. Fitzgerald, who had several previous convictions for violent and sexual offences, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 34 years on 24 November 2020.

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