Richard Huckle
British serial sex offender
Died when: 33 years 152 days (400 months)Star Sign: Taurus
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 tied up, sexually assaulted, strangled and then stabbed to death in his cell.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.