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| Briton Richard Huckle jailed for Malaysia sex abuse | Briton Richard Huckle jailed for Malaysia sex abuse |
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| British man Richard Huckle has been jailed for life by a judge at the Old Bailey after admitting 71 charges of sex abuse against children in Malaysia. | British man Richard Huckle has been jailed for life by a judge at the Old Bailey after admitting 71 charges of sex abuse against children in Malaysia. |
| The 30-year-old from Ashford, Kent, admitted the offences against victims aged between six months and 12 years, from 2006 to 2014. | The 30-year-old from Ashford, Kent, admitted the offences against victims aged between six months and 12 years, from 2006 to 2014. |
| He was given 22 life sentences and will serve a minimum term of 23 years. | He was given 22 life sentences and will serve a minimum term of 23 years. |
| It is believed Huckle abused up to 200 children from mainly poor communities in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. | It is believed Huckle abused up to 200 children from mainly poor communities in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. |
| 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 said Huckle was consumed by and obsessed with his own sexual gratification and his "campaign of rape" was of "deep concern". | |
| He added: "In my view, you may well harbour feelings of regret but there is no feeling of genuine remorse in this case." | |
| Paedophile's manual | |
| 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. | |
| How abuser Richard Huckle was caught | |
| He boasted about his crimes in online posts, saying in one discussion that "impoverished kids are definitely much easier to seduce than middle-class Western kids." | |
| 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. |