Emails by Britain’s Worst Paedo Richard Huckle Revealed As He Wormed His Way into Kids’ Home

By Sanjay Jha
Mo4ch
June 3, 2016

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Britain’s most prolific paedophile sent a series of chilling emails to gain the trust of a priest who runs a orphanages in India to get access to children living there.

In the disturbing emails, depraved Richard Huckle posed as a volunteer who wanted to visit the children’s home and bring his camera to take photos and videos of them.

Huckle, 30, a grammar schoolboy, raised by middle class parents in Ashford in Kent, faces life in jail for a sickening catalogue of sex crimes against children as young as two.

Posing as a freelance photographer and English teacher, he used his charisma to talk his way into communities of vulnerable children, primarily in Malaysia and Cambodia.

Huckle gained access to care homes, orphanages and other impoverished communities that were unprepared to cope with the infiltration of a monster.

Sick: Richard Huckle raped in orphanages and care homes in Malaysia and Cambodia. Here is pictured at India’s New Hope for Children Orphanage, but is not believed to have abused orphans living there

Abuse: In this never-before-seen picture, Huckle, 30, poses for a photograph at the New Hope for Children Orphanage in Bangalore. He is not believed to have abused children during his two day stay

Depraved: Huckle took pictures and videos of himself raping and abusing young girls and boys and even a baby wearing a nappy – with victims aged between two and 13

Now, Indian pastor George Fernandes, 37, has revealed how the paedophile targeted his New Hope for Children Orphanage in Bangalore.

Huckle sent emails to pastor Fernandes after finding the orphanage on Facebook.

His first email on June 30, 2013, reads: ‘Greetings Pastor George. My name is Richard Huckle. I’m originally from UK but am studying an IT Degree in Malaysia.’

He went on to detail plans to travel through India, and expressed his enthusiasm for visiting the orphanage.

He continued: ‘I’m very much interested in visiting your orphanages in Bangalore and Ambur, especially in Ambur as I’m able to speak basic Tamil.

‘It would be a great experience for me to visit your orphanages, meet and help the children, and would be more than happy to use my photography and video editing skills to help make some promotional material for your ministry.’

He added: ‘God bless your ministry and I look forward to hearing back from you.’

Pastor Fernandes told how he accepted Huckle’s offer, not suspecting the horrific crimes he was capable of.

Infiltrated: Huckle targeted impoverished communities across Southeast Asia, primarily in Malaysia and Cambodia, because children were ‘much, much easier to seduce’

Target: He told Pastor Fernandes that he would be ‘very interested’ in visiting the orphanage where he wanted to take pictures of the children with his camera

Trust: He was able to build up a rapport with the heads of the orphanages and care homes he visited, by posing as a student or a teacher to gain a position of trust within the facilities

Huckle asked the pastor if he knew of anywhere he could stay, ‘either with a local family or at a cheap hotel’ and was offered a room at the priest’s house.

He was not left alone with the children during his two-day stay and he is not believed to have abused any children there.

Pastor Fernandes told MailOnline: ‘I am shocked to read about what he has done. In hindsight, I can see he just wanted to gain access our kids.

‘He seemed nice on email and we were excited to host him as we thought he is keen to serve the orphan children,’ said the priest.

‘One thing I noticed that was unusual about his personality was his silence. He would not speak much or tell anything about his past.

‘He was very quiet and very different than other western volunteers we had in the past and he would hardly opened up even during dinner at my home.

‘He had very good knowledge of photography and taught us many new thing and we learnt a lot from him but he seemed disoriented and won’t look straight into our eyes ever during his short stay.’

During Huckle’s visit, the orphanage posted a special ‘thank you’ photo on Facebook – with the caption: ‘Richard is a photographer who arrived in Bangalore today to work with Pastor George as a volunteer. He is taking new photos and video of the children at NHC Home.’

Monster: Huckle boasted that the children he targeted in impoverished countries were ‘much, much easier to seduce than middle-class Western kids’

Predatory: The paedophile even asked Pastor Fernandes if he knew of any local families that he could stay with during his visit. He is pictured here teaching staff at the orphanage about photography

Chilling: This series of emails, sent by Huckle to the Indian pastor at New Hope for Children Orphanage, demonstrates how he talked his way into a position of power over vulnerable children

Deplorable: Huckle, pictured here at the New Hope for Children orphanage, now faces up to 22 life sentences at the Old Bailey after admitting to 71 charges of rape, sexual assault and sexual activity

The pastor went on: ‘He wrote me back saying that he is very keen to come back and spend more with us but he never came back and didn’t maintain any kind of contact.

‘He used to be regular and very active on Facebook messenger and I wrote him a message but there no reply from him.’

Huckle now faces life in jail after admitting to 71 charges including rape, sexual assault and sexual activity with a child at the Old Bailey.

HUCKLE’S NINE-YEAR CAMPAIGN OF ABUSE ACROSS SOUTHEAST ASIA

2005 – Richard Huckle first visits Malaysia on a teaching placement in his gap year

2006 – He spends two weeks in Cambodia and sexually abuses two sisters aged four and six

2007 – He returns to Cambodia and stays with the same family. He takes a volunteer teacher role at a small centre in their village

2011 – He moves to Malaysia permanently and enrols at Kuala Lumpur University to study IT. He also claims to be working as a freelance professional photographer

2013 – Huckle arranges a visit to the New Hope for Children Orphanage in Bangalore and Ambur, after finding out about it on Facebook

2014 – National Crime Agency gets a tip off from police in Queensland, Australia, alerting them to the abuse

Dec 2014 – Huckle is arrested at Gatwick Airport after arriving to visit his parents for Christmas

Feb 2015 – Huckle is charged with more than 90 offences

June 2016 – The case can finally be reported after restrictions are lifted at the beginning of a three-day sentencing hearing

His abuse began in 2006 when he abused two sisters aged four and six. The following year he returned to Cambodia where he stayed with the same family and volunteered as a teacher at a school in the village.

In 2011 he moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he enrolled at the Metropolitan University and studied IT and began working as a freelance photographer.

In Malaysia he preyed on up to 200 children by targeting vulnerable communities.

He took pictures and videos of himself raping and abusing young girls and boys and even a baby wearing a nappy.

A second pastor in Kuala Lumpur told MailOnline how he confronted Huckle at his church and demanded to know why he was constantly bringing young Tamil children to the Sunday morning services without the presence of their parents.

‘I’ve got their permission,’ Huckle told the Pastor.

‘Well, the next time you come, make sure there is at least one parent present,’ he was told.

Pastor Paul Packianathan did not see Huckle again for several months – when he returned with three more children and again with no parent present.

‘There was something about him that made me uneasy, but I had no reason to take any direct action against him apart from insisting that he bring a parent along so I could speak to them.

‘That opportunity never arose. I never did see a parent. But what I did find out from him was that he had brought the children across the city from many miles away in an area that he was living in.

‘They were impoverished youngsters who had put their trust in him, but as we know now he abused that trust.

Dark: As well as bragging about his crimes on online blogs on the dark web, Huckle also wrote a 60-page handbook of instructions for other paedophiles wanted to learn how to abuse children abroad

Overwhelming: Before pleading guilty to some 71 of the charges against him, Huckle faced three separate trials because the extent of his crimes was deemed too much for one jury to copy with

‘The three or four children he would bring, sometimes the same, sometimes different ones, made me wonder where they had come from. He simply said they were from the area he was living in.’

Huckle bragged of his activity in online blogs and even wrote a 60-page handbook for how other paedophiles could groom children in developing countries.

The handbook, titled Pedophiles & Poverty: Child Lover Guide, described how to go about grooming victims, plying them with alcohol and avoiding detection.

‘Impoverished kids are definitely much, much easier to seduce than middle-class Western kids,’ he bragged.

He also said of one of his victims: ‘I’d hit the jackpot, a three-year-old girls as loyal to me as my dog and nobody seemed to care.’

Methods Huckle is known to have used are: offering to take photographs for children’s birthday parties; posing as a private tutor to gain one-on-one time with vulnerable children; taking his young victims for days out to parks, rides on the train and even to Sunday morning church services.

He made money from selling child sex abuse images and videos for the online currency Bitcoins on the dark web.

Huckle’s activities were uncovered when the National Crime Agency who smashed a paedophile ring in Australia.

Cruel: The scale of Huckle’s crimes are unprecedented in the UK, and he has become only the third British man convicted under a recent law allowing the UK to prosecute ‘sex tourists’

Pastor Packianathan’s suspicions that something was ‘very wrong’ continued until Huckle left Malaysia to return to the UK at Christmas, 2014 – and he was arrested at Gatwick Airport.

He was found to have possession of more than 20,000 images of horrific child sex abuse on his laptop, although some parts of his laptop are password protected and detectives are still unable to access it.

Huckle’s parents Edwin and Christina went to the airport where he told them he was a paedophile.

His mother questioned him about the allegations and he admitted to her that he had sex with children aged three to 13.

When he was bailed his mother was extremely upset and extremely angry. She and his father called the police and asked them to take their son away, making it clear they didn’t want him under their roof, the court was told.

The Huckles told police what their son has admitted and gave statements in court for the prosecution.

Initially their son denied the offences before changing his plea and admitting 71 after five months as the evidence against him was overwhelming.

DID UK POLICE BRITAIN’S WORST EVER PAEDOPHILES TO STRIKE AGAIN?

Arrest: Huckle was arrested at Gatwick Airport in 2014 after a tip-off from Australian authorities

For years, Richard Huckle moved stealthily from one community to another, targeting the young, innocent and impoverished.

The National Crime Agency was tipped off months before his arrest that he was sexually molesting children hardly out of nappies, photographing his exploits for other perverts as he travelled through Malaysia and Cambodia, brazenly taking his young victims on outings to parks, rides on the train and even to Sunday morning church services.

But the authorities in Malaysia where he eventually settled remained unaware of his activities. The English teacher was considered a philanthropist, a committed Christian, even a saviour.

Yesterday Mariza Abdulkadir, interim executive director of the Malaysian charity Protect and Save the Children Association, told the Mail: ‘Yes, of course we have asked why no-one stepped forward to stop him. We cannot understand why there was no collaboration between the NCA and our own police.

‘I’ve learned that the NCA cannot operate in another country, move in and arrest someone, but I cannot understand why our police here were not tipped off to keep a watch on him.

‘Perhaps there was a fear he would realise he was being investigated and would go underground – that’s the only logical explanation I can come up with, but I still don’t think it’s strong enough to let him continue to abuse children until he returned to the UK in December 2014.’

She also criticised the NCA for failing to tell community leaders in Malaysia about the extent of his crimes until 16 months after his arrest.