UNITED KINGDOM/MALAYSIA
Straits Times
LONDON/KUALA LUMPUR • Confessed British child sex-abuser Richard Huckle, who preyed on poor children in an impoverished Kuala Lumpur neighbourhood, will be sentenced on Monday, British judge Peter Rook told the court yesterday.
The sentencing for the serial paedophile had been expected yesterday, but the judge said he wanted to consider mitigating factors put before him by Huckle’s lawyers, notably a letter of remorse.
The paedophile took Malaysian children with him to church and regularly roamed a Kuala Lumpur neighbourhood to snap pictures of kids, those who met him said yesterday.
But several people interviewed by Agence France-Presse said they had seen no reason to suspect Huckle, 30, of the sickening pattern of child sex abuse that could see him locked up for life.
Huckle was facing in a London court 91 charges, including the rape or sexual assault of children as young as six months old, committed during his several years living in Malaysia.
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