Cleared... to Kill

By Jamie Pyatt
The Sun
May 11, 2012

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4311746/Cleared-to-kill-Murderer-Christopher-Hunnisett-had-previously-been-cleared-on-priest-killing.html

AN ex-altar boy cleared of killing a priest was yesterday convicted of murdering his gay lover after he was freed. \

Brutal Christopher Hunnisett, 28, bludgeoned Peter Bick to death with a hammer.

He wrongly suspected the 57-year-old supermarket worker was a paedophile. Hunnisett was jailed for eight years in 2002 for killing alleged paedophile the Rev Ronald Glazebrook, 81.

He was acquitted at a retrial in 2010 when he said he had been protecting himself from the priest’s advances. Just four months later, he killed Mr Bick at his studio flat in Bexhill, East Sussex, by smashing him over the head five times.

Hunnisett and Mr Bick had started a sexual relationship after meeting on the internet, Lewes Crown Court was told.

The tattooed killer said he left sex toys round his victim’s bed “to show the world what kind of person he was”.

Mr Bick’s name topped a “hit list” of potential child sex offenders kept by Hunnisett. But the jury heard there was “not a shred of evidence” he was a paedophile.

Hunnisett, of Hastings, East Sussex, launched “Operation Tango” — his military-style crusade against paedophiles — after overhearing perverts plotting while he was in prison.

He leapt from the dock after the guilty verdict and was restrained by eight guards. He will be sentenced on May 22.