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); Near Full Sutton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Cause of death	Stab wounds (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 rapist. He was arrested by Britain's National Crime Agency in 2014 after a tip-off from Task Force Argos, a highly specialised branch of Australia's Queensland Police Service responsible for the investigation of online child exploitation and abuse, and convicted in 2016 of 71 charges of sexual offences against children, committed while he served as a Christian missionary and a freelance photographer in Malaysia.

The enormity of the charges against him has resulted in his 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 25 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, including having an improvised knife shoved through his nose into his brain. 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.