Richard Huckle, a British national who was jailed in the UK for sex crimes against up to 200 children, including Malaysians, has been found stabbed to death in prison, according to media reports.
According to the BBC, Huckle was attacked in his cell at Full Sutton Prison in York, where he is currently serving 22 life sentences.
He was jailed back in 2016, after being arrested upon his return to the UK from Malaysia, where he had been living and sexually abusing children.
The photographer from Ashford, Kent, had pleaded guilty to 71 offences involving 22 children aged between six months and 12 years, between 2006 and 2014.
His admission was uncovered by BBC journalist Bronagh Munro, who made a documentary about the former poster boy for the British Council in Malaysia.
She obtained his diary for BBC Three’s ‘Gap Year Paedophile’ during a year-long investigation into the 33-year-old child sex abuser.
It was reported that Huckle was a 19-year-old gap year student when he arrived in Malaysia in 2005 and was teaching in Southeast Asia.
He remained in the region for nearly a decade.
During that time, he infiltrated impoverished communities, targeting care homes and orphanages, filming himself raping babies and children and awarding himself ‘Pedo Points’ for his depravity.
He boasted about his crimes on the hidden ‘dark web’ and compiled a 60-page manual, Paedophiles and Poverty: Child Love Guide, on how to select victims and avoid detection. He wanted to create a ‘Paedo Wiki guide’.