By Eric King
A paedophile has been found stabbed to death in prison after his attacker heard of his heinous crimes.
The depraved paedophile was attacked on Sunday in his cell at Full Sutton Prison, near York, with what was described as a makeshift knife.
Police were called shortly after 12:30pm and have launched an investigation into his death.
Richard Huckle, 33, from Ashford, Kent, abused as many as 200 children, including kids as young as 3 years old whom he said was ”as loyal as my dog”.
In online posts, Huckle had bragged: “Impoverished kids are definitely much easier to seduce than middle-class Western kids. “I’d hit the jackpot, a 3year girl as loyal to me as my dog and nobody seemed to care.”
Huckle was given 22 life sentences after admitting 71 charges of sex abuse of children aged between six months and 12 years, between 2006 and 2014. His Old Bailey trial in 2016 heard that cops found more than 20,000 indecent pictures and videos of his assaults. These were shared with paedophiles worldwide through a hidden website on the so-called dark web. He also groomed children during voluntary work.
Paedophiles are usually kept in a wing of their own in prison away from violent inmates who can attack them so viciously. An investigation into his murder will inquire how it is that he was killed in his cell. But there won’t be many people mourning his death.
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