Richard Huckle
The worst paedophile in Britain who abused up to 200 Malaysian children and posted videos of his depraved acts online has been given 22 life sentences.
According to Daily Mail, Richard Huckle, from Ashford in Kent, admitted an unprecedented number of offences against children aged between six months and 12 years from 2006 to 2014.
Judge Peter Rook QC told him: 'You had become consumed with paedophilia. Your life revolved around your obsession with your own sexual gratification'.
Huckle, aged 30, will serve a minimum 25 years behind bars before being considered for parole.
As Huckle was taken down to the cells, a woman sitting in the public gallery yelled: 'A thousand deaths is too good for you.'
Huckle masqueraded as a devout Christian, photographer and English teacher to prey on poor children in Kuala Lumpur over nine years.
A stream of pictures and videos of his rapes and assaults on children were shared with paedophiles worldwide through an encrypted website.
He even tried to make a business out of his horrific crimes 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.
The judge said he would be a 'significant risk for many years to come', adding: 'there is no genuine remorse in this case'.
The judge told Huckle: 'You were and are s*xually obsessed with children. You have spent years abusing them. In one of your postings you stated that you had become consumed by your paedophilia.
'It is clear from your postings on hidden encrypted paedophile websites on the dark web, and from the manual you were in the process of drafting, that your life revolved around your obsession with your own s*xual gratification by child s*x abuse.
'It is also clear that, had you not been arrested, you planned to continue the same lifestyle using the expertise that you were keen to show off to and share with other abusers so as to continue your sexual exploitation of the children of such communities.'
The judge told Huckle a paedophile manual he had written was a 'truly evil document'.
He said: 'It speaks volumes about the scale of your self delusion, describing your conduct as child love. Furthermore, it appears as though your conduct was escalating.'
Twenty three children were identified in 71 charges, although Huckle's tally of abuse which he catalogued on a 'Pedopoints' ledger was much higher.
The aggravating features of the case included the sheer number of vulnerable children affected, the depravity of the acts, and the length of time he carried on.
His commitment was demonstrated in his efforts to make money by crowd funding videos of his abuse of a three year old girl.
He even cast himself as a trailblazer and encouraged other paedophiles to follow his example in the guide to abusing children in poverty which was to be posted online.
Huckle was brought up in a comfortable middle class Christian household but had shunned the company of other children and spent most of his teenage years at home on his computer.
The predator had been on his way home to spend the festive season with his parents in Ashford when the National Crime Agency swooped to arrest him on information from authorities in Australia.
