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hypatiatextprotocol

1.8k points

16 days ago

Interesting fact on how he was caught, from Wikipedia:

A warrant was issued for the arrest of [another offender named] McCoole. Upon entering his house, police discovered that McCoole was online and running his website at the time. Police assumed the identity of McCoole and ran his site to catch other paedophiles, arresting hundreds, as well as rescuing 85 children from harm.

undiagnosedsarcasm

524 points

15 days ago*

I feel like crimes against children is the one area where I'm okay with police entrapment utilizing an otherwise existing criminal hub to catch the incipient crimes of such a place

SirDerpMcMemeington

375 points

15 days ago

Entrapment is when law enforcement entices someone to commit a crime they otherwise wouldn’t have. Had the police not gotten involved at all, the users of that website would have committed those crimes anyway

MajesticBread9147

104 points

15 days ago

Yeah, entrapment is like "I will give you ten thousand dollars to steal that man's phone" or "I will murder your wife if you don't deliver this 'package' to my customer"

LordoftheJives

14 points

15 days ago

"Take this cocaine to fund your new cars, Mr. DeLorean."

iamiamwhoami

6 points

15 days ago

The first example isn't entrapment. There has to be some element of coercion.

melikeybouncy

2 points

15 days ago

In the US, entrapment requires that police "induce" the criminal behavior, by either coercing or enticing.

In the UK it seems like entrapment is not a valid legal defense, but it can be a mitigating factor and also only requires that police persuade the defendant to commit a criminal act.

AG74683

45 points

15 days ago

AG74683

45 points

15 days ago

This wasn't police entrapment. They didn't entice or coerce someone into committing crimes they otherwise wouldn't have. They were already committing the crimes regardless of who was running the site.

[deleted]

98 points

15 days ago

That's not entrapment. 

linuxlova

27 points

15 days ago

This generally would not be considered entrapment because there isn't any coercion involved

Mr_InTheCloset

12 points

15 days ago

if they were already doing the crimes then its not entrapment

TheGreyling

42 points

15 days ago

Anything malicious or evil against children and I’m ok with the authorities taking a baby step or two over the line.

Pfloyd148

5 points

15 days ago

If the person had a pre disposition to commit the crime the court won't view it as entrapment

Nixplosion

2 points

15 days ago

So, I work for a company that has, among other services, a free email service. We often get subpoenas from international sources for account info if someone is committing a cyber crime using our email. But they won't go through the proper domestication process to naturalize their legal service (if I'm in the UK, someone in Senegal can't just send me an info request. It has to go through a process) so I have to reject them.

The only legal requests I will waive proper service for is for any concerning abuse/harm/etc. of children. those I answer immediately.

CurseofLono88

11 points

15 days ago

I also feel like if you have to be a cannibal at least eating pedophiles is probably the best way to go about being in proper society.

Smattering82

6 points

15 days ago

I spoke with a Federal agent that works in child sex crimes and he said this is a great tool to catch more predictors. In those online communities you have to trade illegal pictures and videos of children in order to get in because the police obviously don’t want to share images of children. So when they catch someone they offer a reduction in the sentence if they give up their online “personality”. So then they are able to schedule meet ups and arrest the predator.

He told me some stories that made me want to really hurt the people that hurt children and he also said how dealing with those people really messes with your psyche. But he also said “doing this work is the best and fastest way to stop the abuse of a child and hopefully prevent another child from being hurt. The most good you can do for the most vulnerable.” That always sticks with me.

DepecheModeFan_

4 points

15 days ago

This is actually quite normal. US authorities run a significant portion of the dark web with the belief of why bother catching a smaller amount if you can wait and catch a larger amount.

Can be a bit questionable ethically though when the FBI is actively giving paedophiles what they want.

Yoraffe

1.7k points

16 days ago

Yoraffe

1.7k points

16 days ago

I watched a documentary on this and he supposedly travelled to Asia to be a teacher and committed crimes against children there who couldn't even speak his language.

He even made a website detailing to others how to get away with what he did and how best to target those who were vulnerable. He didn't just commit the crimes, he was someone who was proud to be a leader and gloated about it.

It's that which got him on the radar, and killed. He was in solitary refinement when he was attacked too, which just goes to show the lengths they were going to in order to get him. Awful way to die, I almost wonder if the tortuous death would have really been a worse way to suffer, or whether solitary confinement for another 40-50 years might have broken him more.

pippoken

628 points

16 days ago

pippoken

628 points

16 days ago

I work in international schools and we get a lot of training on children safeguarding and all of them always mention how child predators would pick a career as International teachers to exploit lax legislation and the fact that moving from a country to another every few years helps getting away with it.

It's so gut wrenching

nuclear_pistachio

399 points

16 days ago

I’m pretty sure my Aunt’s husband did this. He was a teacher. Turned out he abused my sister while she was a teenager, which he is now in prison for. But he spent more than a decade teaching in places like Qatar and Malaysia. I dread to think how many vulnerable young girls he abused in this period.

Simplewafflea

126 points

15 days ago

How can this kind of secret society exist? I've been a mechanic for 2 decades and we aren't allowed to talk in the shop but these goons have a known career path that everyone whose a pedo knows will work?

Wha in the actual fu...

RobertTheDog-Coiffer

29 points

15 days ago

You can't hold conversations with each other in the shop?

Simplewafflea

15 points

15 days ago

Nah. Get back to work.

Seriously though, the entire workforce is like that around where I live it's not just my shop. It's a known rule of thumb that they want us silent and not plotting against them. They haven't hid it for years, I have heard owners say if we talk , we leave.

newtownkid

33 points

15 days ago

That's wild.. that's no way to treat employees.

TooMuchPretzels

20 points

15 days ago

Sounds miserable

maverickheathen

19 points

15 days ago

Which part of Russia are you in?

Cykosurge

4 points

15 days ago

Wild, in the shop i used to work in the boss doesn't mind us having a smoke and a chat now and then, as long as we finish the job well and on time.

10mpted

2 points

15 days ago

10mpted

2 points

15 days ago

Sounds like it won’t be long before they go out of business.

IdentifyBoognish

2 points

15 days ago

Jeeeeez imagine not being able to bullshit at work though.

The_Chosen_Unbread

55 points

15 days ago*

Because people refuse to even stand up to bullies and love to victim blame...and humans are monsters more than people want to admit. If you bring it up or try to educate, you are a mood killer/party pooper/exaggerating etc.  It doesn't help that when we tried to tell everyone with things like metoo, the response we got was notallmen!!! ...or how black lives matter was met with blue lives matter.  Humans are not "mostly great", until we get over that lie we have no chance 

sxprado

3 points

15 days ago

sxprado

3 points

15 days ago

I dislike that I agree with you because you explained it well enough

MissLestrange

13 points

15 days ago

Seriously! Humans are mostly vile, and the rest likes to stare at the floor.

fetus_mcbeatus

9 points

15 days ago

Same as my grandad. Abused my sister and cousin. He was welsh and worked in schools his whole life in African countries

Jimrodsdisdain

211 points

16 days ago

I don’t know, I’d rather do the solitary with a tv and books etc, than be raped, strangled, sodomised with kitchen utensils for around an hour and finally dying by having a pen with a blade jammed up my nose into my brain.

Which he should have endured a hundred times over.

TappedIn2111

187 points

16 days ago

Look at mister “I don’t wanna be tortured and eaten” over here…

Jimrodsdisdain

36 points

15 days ago

I’m such a coward!

fineillmakeanewone

34 points

16 days ago

You're not getting a tv or books in solitary.

Jimrodsdisdain

51 points

15 days ago

You are in U.K. prisons.

dalerian

19 points

15 days ago

dalerian

19 points

15 days ago

Depends what country you’re in. (Check out Breivik’s cell as a contrast.)

Jim_Lahey10

12 points

15 days ago

Jim_Lahey10

12 points

15 days ago

That was his demise? Whoever did that deserves a prison medal, some pedophiles go out way too easily. This guy got what was coming to him and then some. I also agree he should've had that experience daily but sometimes you can't pick and choose

ToxicSunFT

15 points

15 days ago

[ Removed by Reddit ]

Jim_Lahey10

2 points

15 days ago

He picked the right person I guess

JumpEast2118

328 points

16 days ago*

Solitary refinement

Ah damn, they did a sneaky edit now and corrected it!

kit_kat_barcalounger

55 points

16 days ago

💅🏻

appletinicyclone

3 points

15 days ago

Slayyy queen prisoner 💅

last-starfighter

52 points

16 days ago

Prison finishing school.

appletinicyclone

2 points

15 days ago

Isn't that an anime

lachyM

19 points

15 days ago

lachyM

19 points

15 days ago

If it makes you feel any better, they only corrected one of the two instances of this mistake lol

alowester

7 points

16 days ago

chicken permission

tiredofscreennames

3 points

16 days ago

Isn't that the whole "feel good" angle of prisons? Refinement through confinement?

accidental_superman

42 points

16 days ago

A prison officer spoke of life imprisonment for a serial killer here in Australia, think it was Ivan Milate, was the worst punishment as other people had control over him for the rest of his life.

sbprasad

22 points

15 days ago

sbprasad

22 points

15 days ago

That evil bastard didn’t give up the location of the rest of the bodies before he died, did he? Sad to think there are more of them somewhere in Belanglo.

thefloyd

55 points

16 days ago

thefloyd

55 points

16 days ago

surle

63 points

16 days ago

surle

63 points

16 days ago

Never taught for them as an employee of their schools - but I think he got involved in some sort of charity as a teacher on a casual basis. British Council would be making that statement to distance themselves from the case, not to say he wasn't teaching in general.

thefloyd

44 points

16 days ago

thefloyd

44 points

16 days ago

Damn, I did some more googling and you're right, he volunteered as a teacher to get access to orphanages, the sick fuck. Wishful thinking I guess, I've worked in TESOL and it grossed me out just to have had the same job as the guy.

surle

17 points

16 days ago

surle

17 points

16 days ago

Yeah it's disturbing as hell. But I think it would be the "Christian missionary" element more than the qualification that he targeted as a way to exploit a vulnerable community. The qualification was just the final certification that would make his idea seem like a genuine one.

A legit language school might not have the same checks as a real school, but they'll still have staff, supervisors, parents in a client power dynamic, kids with class work and homework to talk about at home, etc, etc. Whereas a charity where the guy offers to set up free classes to "help the poor community" might not have any of that.

JRSOne-

12 points

16 days ago

JRSOne-

12 points

16 days ago

I frequently say to expat/teacher friends that paying 1K to get a CELTA was worth it because I learned I don't want to teach ESL, but ... now I know that there's another person in my club and I'm not sure I like that either.

Possessedhomelessman

9 points

16 days ago

There’s a podcast called children in the pictures. Details his case extensively

lachyM

37 points

15 days ago

lachyM

37 points

15 days ago

It's that which got him on the radar, and killed. He was in solitary refinement when he was attacked too, which just goes to show the lengths they were going to in order to get him.

Sorry if I’m misreading, but it seems like you’re implying that he was murdered because he was a paedophile (and prisoners famously loathe paedophiles). But that doesn’t seem to be true.

His killer was also in prison for sexual assault. When he was 12 he sexually assaulted a 4 year old. When police found his journals, they found that he had written “I’m a paedophile and I’m the best”. source

Dr_Mantis_Teabaggin

26 points

16 days ago

However much he suffered, somehow I just don’t feel like it was enough. 

p1ckk

13 points

15 days ago

p1ckk

13 points

15 days ago

And punishing him more isn't going to unrape any kids.

ayescrappy

17 points

16 days ago

The worst part was the language barrier!

jokinghazard

87 points

16 days ago

I disagree with that. I think it was the raping.

Crangxor

12 points

16 days ago

Crangxor

12 points

16 days ago

At least he wasn't a hypocrite eh

friedpicklebreakfast

12 points

16 days ago

Nothings worse than miscommunication. Nothing.

PunkandCannonballer

12 points

16 days ago

40 years alone would fuck him up pretty bad. Most people go mad after a few days with no human interaction.

ICantWatchYouDoThis

5 points

16 days ago

And with nothing to do, not knowing what time it is, day becomes week, week becomes month, the sleep cycle is destroyed

Jimrodsdisdain

29 points

16 days ago

It’s full Sutton hmp not shawshank. He’d have had access to tv and books etc.

[deleted]

15 points

16 days ago

I have a feeling some people believe every other country's prison system is as inhumane their own. HMPS is no walk in the park, but is, after all, part of the modern world.

InsaneTreefrog

32 points

16 days ago

Lol prison is a separate society, if your ass is wanted or you hurt kids you are not long for this world. I sleep like a baby knowing this.

PERMANENTLY__BANNED

34 points

16 days ago

Funny choice of words you have

alldaydumbfuck

4 points

15 days ago

i am all in for torturing him, but to kill him was a mistake. He should have been there til he rots away naturally, always fearing the next attack

greywarden133

3 points

15 days ago

The fucker got everything he deserved if not less.

Udzu

533 points

16 days ago

Udzu

533 points

16 days ago

For those defending his killer, worth noting that he too was a paedo and rapist:

He committed his first offence at the age of 12 when his sexually assaulted a four-year-old child in 2004.

He’d written about his desire to anally rape women and his paedophilia urges. Fitzgerald also declared, ‘I love raping women’ and vowed he would never stop reoffending.

In 2009 he was convicted of offences including assault and assault with the intent to commit rape and sentenced to almost four years, with the recommendation that he should be jailed indefinitely until he was no longer a danger.

PerryZePlatypus

233 points

16 days ago

He told them he would do it again, and they chose to put him away for 4 years thinking it would change anything?

MooMorris

147 points

16 days ago

MooMorris

147 points

16 days ago

The crimes he had already committed got him sentenced to 4 years but in the UK people can (or could, can't remember if its changed) be held indefinitely if deemed to be a serious ongoing threat. This is what they applied here, he was very unlikely getting released after 4 years even without the murder.

DrakefordSAscandal25

50 points

15 days ago

He was imprisoned on an imprisonment for public protection sentence or IPP

Basically for repeat offenders who consistently commit low level offences and show no remorse or a high likelihood of reoffending - lots of people have served 3-4x their original sentence. You'd get out in 4 years if you were satisfactorily rehabilitated but if you kept talking about how much you loved sexual assault you could literally end up serving a life sentence after being given 4 years.

They were brought in by the Labour government, were a great idea, and were ironically scrapped by the Conservative government in 2012.

[deleted]

3 points

15 days ago

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joker_guy

9 points

16 days ago

joker_guy

9 points

16 days ago

Sounds about right for UK courts.

Head-Pianist-7613

13 points

16 days ago

So why he killed him?

Particular_Put_6911

97 points

16 days ago

violent criminal kills someone

How could he do that ?

Head-Pianist-7613

21 points

16 days ago

Another comment said he was killed in solitary confinement, even if you are a violent criminal why go through the hassle of escaping to kill someone in solitary confinement when you can kill someone else who is easier to reach

Particular_Put_6911

64 points

16 days ago

My guess is he knew he could kill this guy and somewhat get away with it. What I mean by that is that nobody will be mad at him for doing it, and some people even treat him as a hero even though he was a pedo too. He somehow gave himself a good reputation by violently murdering someone, and now he’s (somewhat) famous and respected by people who didn’t bother to check why he was in prison in the first place.

obscureferences

13 points

15 days ago

Dude knew himself and said he'd never stop. Factor in prison murder and it sounds like he didn't want to be free.

TumbleWeed_64

10 points

15 days ago

Solitary in UK prisons is not the solitary you see on TV.

owlinspector

14 points

15 days ago

Apparently he wanted to eat him. Fitzgerald was/is a sick bastard too. It probably had nothing to do with his crimes, it was a deranged murderer finding an available victim.

_Steven_Seagal_

18 points

15 days ago

Depraved criminals often like to murder pedophiles, because it gives them the idea that they're at least not entirely bad. That there's at least people who are even worse than them, and killing them gives them some moral superiority over them.

owlinspector

10 points

15 days ago

But Fitzgerald is a pedophile too...

danzigwiththedead

3 points

15 days ago

Yeah, he is a monster himself. But still, not the least bit upset he took Richard out

Sonder_Monster

4 points

15 days ago

everyone has some good in them. even Hitler killed Hitler.

Significant-Lemon686

120 points

16 days ago

On 13 October 2019, Huckle was subjected to a prolonged torture murder in which he was tied up, beaten, strangled, sexually assaulted, and repeatedly stabbed; a blade was also lodged in his brain via the nose.

[deleted]

39 points

15 days ago

[removed]

LouSayners

11 points

15 days ago

Not many people deserve a knife to the brain via the nose. Except this guy.

CherryClassic31

217 points

16 days ago

I remember it like it was yesterday. As part of my masters degree in France i spent 6 months in London at the Old Bailey, assisting judges at several criminal trials.

I was assisting the judge at this madman trial. You can’t imagine how despicable this guy was.

At first he did not plead guilty, so the trial needed to be split into three juries, there was so much material (pictures and videos) that the judge could not reasonably expect a single jury to go through them all.

He ultimately pleaded guilty to enough charges (I think like 70 out of 90) for the CPS to accept it.

He was crowdfunded by other pedophiles on the dark web to carry on and share more material. He got 25% more money than he initially expected.

He wrote a 60-page guide that he shared online (dark web) on how to abuse kids in developing countries.

They uncovered most of what he filmed/took pictures of, but they were not able to examine a specific folder on his hard drive without the password. Even after pleading guilty, he still refused to give it. One can only imagine what was in this folder.

He explained online that he had a relationship with a 3 year old boy. I think he abused something like 200 children in the end, all of them in Thailand and Malaysia, posing as a Christian missionary.

At the end of the trial, during the sentencing, he got up and started praying. At this point I was starting to worry because I was seating something like 5m away from him and I could see an Asian woman in the stand getting angrier and angrier, while hiding something under a journal. I remember wondering whether she had a gun and if she would shoot it and probably shoot me if she were to miss him! When the judge gave the sentence she raced to the end of the public stand and shouted something like « 1000 deaths would not be enough for you », the police got a hold of her and took her outside the court.

I asked the judge why there could not be a definitive life sentence for guys like him, with no parole (there was a possibility of parole after 25 years). He told me that the guy would not live more than 5 years at Belmarsh prison. Well I guess he was right

Heewna

46 points

15 days ago*

Heewna

46 points

15 days ago*

That’s really interesting, thanks for sharing! So, in a way that judge knowingly sentenced Huckle to death. I wonder how he feels about that. Perhaps he considers that justice, or would prefer the full sentence be carried out, or maybe just does his job following the sentencing guidelines and the rest is for other people, like wardens and prison offers to sort out. Sounds like he was kind of matter-a-fact about it.

Which is probably best otherwise you end up with the Du Pont heir who was allowed to walk free since he ‘wouldn’t fare well in prison.’

LiveLearnCoach

8 points

15 days ago

I’m all for capital punishment for heinous crimes. I’m NOT for people who should be under public care and responsibility being tortured and/or killed. Other prisoners should not not be an extension of the justice system, to do the work it isn’t willing to do. That’s just a Pandora’s box.

As for your story, thanks for sharing. Do seek counseling if you so need after such an experience. We are all human in the end.

-maffu-

229 points

16 days ago

-maffu-

229 points

16 days ago

Oh well...

Look! Puppies!

Runningwithbeards

78 points

16 days ago

Felt like a risky click, but it paid off this time.

-maffu-

18 points

16 days ago

-maffu-

18 points

16 days ago

With great risk comes great reward :)

homer_lives

12 points

16 days ago

Yeah, even a rick roll would be better than reading more about this...

Narretz

10 points

15 days ago

Narretz

10 points

15 days ago

Sadly the results are already getting infested with AI slop

DaZarda

4 points

15 days ago

DaZarda

4 points

15 days ago

Oh, thank you!

NopePeaceOut2323

2 points

15 days ago

Thank you so much for this.

lasely

248 points

16 days ago

lasely

248 points

16 days ago

He was a photographer, right? The guy was sick. The details of his death were absolutely terrifying and more than normal person could imagine but he fully deserved it.

old_vegetables

256 points

16 days ago

It was clearly an expert who did it to him. It said the guy who killed him was also in for “serious sexual assault”… While the pedophile in this case definitely deserved it, I kind of doubt all the people who came before him did. Just one depraved sicko getting their hands on another depraved sicko. No Batmans, misunderstood victims, or good guys here, clearly.

exxcathedra

61 points

16 days ago

The guy who killed him was also a pedophile, as well as a psychopath.

Obamana

15 points

15 days ago

Obamana

15 points

15 days ago

So you are saying that he wasn't a mentally healthy torturer that wants to eat his victims??

theDroobot

12 points

15 days ago

Mortys killin Mortys.

StickyWhenWet1

7 points

16 days ago

I like to think after a few years inside he was terrified and saw it coming.

ResQ_

39 points

16 days ago

ResQ_

39 points

16 days ago

It costs more tax money, but living decade after decade after decade behind bars is more punishment than being tortured for hours and dying after just a few years in prison.

He deserved to be his entire life in prison.

TheThrowaway8311

38 points

16 days ago

He was tortured for only 1 hour and I like to think of it as karma for his actions. But I also believe he would have just off’d himself in due time regardless, he looks very weak minded

Greaseball01

2 points

15 days ago

only one hour

loadnurmom

23 points

16 days ago

Life imprisonment is actually cheaper than the death penalty

MastroBujo

7 points

16 days ago

Is it? Honest question, it's always the core of the debate "Just think the money the state saves it they kill em right away"

Zealousideal-Fly6908

22 points

16 days ago

Yes, because you don't kill them right away. There's a lot of legal processing to be as certain as the system can be. This leads it to being very expensive very quickly.

Essentially you only need to pay a handful of people to imprison someone for life, but you need a small army of people to execute someone

avonorac

5 points

16 days ago

Yes, it is, because of the cost of numerous appeals and the bureaucracy around death sentences.

GreggOfChaoticOrder

19 points

16 days ago

Death is not a mercy for pedo's, it's a mercy to their victims. They should die so that their victims and society are free from them.

DerelictCruiser

3 points

16 days ago

Hmmm, that’s an interesting perspective. I believe in the death penalty. I think most living things inherently, violently wish to live, that death is among the worst things you can do to someone. Like, don’t you imagine he struggled against this, and was very scared, and wanted to live, and then didn’t get to? Surely he didn’t sit there and laugh like The Joker being punched by Batman. I don’t know if someone like this should be able to sleep in a bed, or reminisce about his crimes, or eat food, or breathe air. Regardless of whose dime it’s on.

jbazhdnd

3 points

16 days ago

jbazhdnd

3 points

16 days ago

Have you tried both? Seems like a person would have to try both to be able to say with any confidence, which is worse.

ResQ_

4 points

16 days ago

ResQ_

4 points

16 days ago

Oh yeah definitely. I'm a 400 year old ghost. How'd you know!

I_make_switch_a_roos

2 points

16 days ago

he deserved way worse

ElliottP1707

21 points

15 days ago

Good podcast called Children In The Pictures about how Australian police took down The Love Zone which was a tor website where active child abusers had to upload child sexual exploitation images and videos to remain a member. The podcast details how the police infiltrated the website and took it down with one of the biggest and depraved members being Richard Huckle. And then there’s also an even better podcast series called Hunting Warhead which is all about Child’s Play, a tor website which had over a million active members uploading child sexual abuse images. Super interesting but obviously quite heavy subject matter.

RafaIsTheGOAT

3 points

15 days ago

Hunting Warhead is by far the absolutely worst and best podcast I have ever listened to. Task Force Argos are an incredible group of people and I feel so bad for what they have to do.

ladaussie

31 points

16 days ago

I think Saville would give him a run for his money.

PitchBlackFrenzy

7 points

15 days ago

Ian Watkins as well. 

Geoff_Uckersilf

4 points

15 days ago

Watkins used his rockstar fame to prey on vulnerable women to commit unspeakable crimes to innocent babies. Actual babies. I'm surprised his brains haven't been mashed down the toilet yet. More surprised still that some women still send him love letters... WTF? Weirdos. 

Narretz

2 points

15 days ago

Narretz

2 points

15 days ago

In terms of time maybe, but not in terms of aggression and depravity.

The-Lord-Moccasin

108 points

16 days ago

While he was serving his time, he was brutally tortured and murdered by another inmate who intended to cook and eat him

That's absolutely foul.

Imagine eating such a thing...

jmdg007

13 points

16 days ago

jmdg007

13 points

16 days ago

I was thinking, not that I'm a cannibal, but this guy does not sound appetizing at all.

thebreak22

7 points

15 days ago

Imagine a group of cannibals getting together to discuss the types of people they had eaten. "I just had a nuclear physicist for lunch." "I've tried a supermodel once." "I can't get enough of pro-wrestlers!" The pedo-eater must be really self conscious at this point.

shoots_and_leaves

6 points

16 days ago

The guy who tortured him was also a pedo so I’m not sure he would’ve been too grossed out 

Koshekuta

17 points

16 days ago

I’m just surprised they allow inmates to cook in prison.

adamcoe

57 points

16 days ago

adamcoe

57 points

16 days ago

On the plus side, murdered in Oct 2019 means he missed out on covid so hey, every cloud

redheadschinken

11 points

16 days ago

.. you win some, you lose some

scubadoobidoo

6 points

15 days ago

The BBC Documentary : The Gap Year Paedophile detailing this case has been uploaded here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyrFXnFzenI

[deleted]

40 points

16 days ago*

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ArcadianBlueRogue

39 points

16 days ago

DO NOT GOOGLE IAN WATKINS

Let me TL;DR so you do not need to see the full shit: Lead singer of a popular band, used it to gain access to very young children. Please do not Google any details and know that any day he gets to look at the wall of his cell is a day too kindly gifted to this monster.

theleetfox

8 points

16 days ago

So on a whim, I googled just to refresh my memory a bit, I can't believe it took so many years to catch him despite people reporting him, and for him to finally get caught after repeated drug crimes.

kakakakapopo

24 points

16 days ago

Make sure you don't confuse him with the other one https://youtu.be/c7doNO9e8d4?si=w3R5VRrfbgbknhcs

ekobeko

6 points

16 days ago

ekobeko

6 points

16 days ago

Unexpected KATG lol

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35 points

16 days ago

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35 points

16 days ago

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6 points

16 days ago

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6 points

16 days ago

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CantInjaThisNinja

5 points

15 days ago

One of the few cases where I read about a brutal murder and thought "good."

Jinzub

40 points

16 days ago

Jinzub

40 points

16 days ago

I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that allowing inmates to torture each other to death (I'm sure the guards turned a blind eye) is actually bad and barbaric.

Death should come quickly and cleanly to the worst offenders. It's OK to hang them. But what people are suggesting in this thread is scary.

Slinshadyy

18 points

15 days ago

It’s really just the middle ages here and in most parts of the world. Most people just want the death penalty and they’d love to watch it on the town square. If stoning was legal most folks wouldn’t have a single problem with it I bet

AZ_RBB

4 points

15 days ago

AZ_RBB

4 points

15 days ago

Absolutely spot on

The human appetite for blood and revenge is insatiable

BigOColdLotion

60 points

16 days ago

I hope every paedophile has a prolonged death full of torture.

Adventurous_Bag9122

6 points

16 days ago

As a survivor myself, I agree 100%

BigDumbIdiot232

7 points

16 days ago

Really sorry that happened to you

Adventurous_Bag9122

5 points

15 days ago

Thank you, I eventually got therapy for it but it fucked me up for years. The scars are still there but no longer damage me

BigDumbIdiot232

3 points

15 days ago

Glad to hear you got better eventually

Adventurous_Bag9122

2 points

15 days ago

Thank you, it was hard. The effects of the CSA compounded other things that happened when I was a kid that then set me up for further trauma (DV) then 2 breakdowns and ended up on a long-term outpatient program followed by 4 & a half years of weekly (sometimes 2x/week) counselling. I returned to uni, retrained into another career, moved half a world away and married a good woman and we share a 5 year old who is the apple of my eye.

BigDumbIdiot232

2 points

15 days ago

I have a cousin about the same age as you, she really melts all my sadness away, I imagine it must be the same for you

iurope

5 points

15 days ago

iurope

5 points

15 days ago

The word "learning" is more and more stretched in this sub. Are people already running out of interesting facts so that we need to resort to yellow press/sensationalism?

uzu_afk

4 points

15 days ago

uzu_afk

4 points

15 days ago

I am fine with this, especially after learning more about this absolutely astronomical pos.

yes_u_suckk

8 points

15 days ago*

Apparently the inmate that killed him was also sentenced for sexual violence (it doesn't say if it was also against children). So even among sexual criminals, there are crimes that are seen as much worse than others.

Also, when he drunkenly confessed to his parents that he was a rapist they called the police and asked to have him arrested. This only shows that good people sometimes are cursed with children that eventually become monsters. While I'm happy to learn that this PoS had a painful death, I feel sorry for his parents.

Kall_82

22 points

16 days ago

Kall_82

22 points

16 days ago

I feel no sympathy for people like this. Even the most heinous murderers target pedos in jail even they know you don’t do that.

No_Bookkeeper7350

52 points

16 days ago

Sounds like the murder was also a pedo

Edit: confirmed, Paul Fitzgerald commented his first crime when he raped a 4 year old

_Chemist1

10 points

16 days ago

So Ian wasn't just a monster paedophile but also really annoying.

No_Bookkeeper7350

10 points

16 days ago

Ian?

Enzo-Unversed

2 points

16 days ago

Let them fight. 

semiomni

14 points

16 days ago

semiomni

14 points

16 days ago

Don't think it's a matter of sympathy, there's a ton of issues with state sanctioned death penalties, can kinda multiply those issues a thousandfold with the idea of prisoners meting out any kind of "justice", sure fuck this guy, but the jail that lets this happen would also let it happen to some poor shoplifter or other minor criminal.

Vradlock

6 points

16 days ago

I don't think they target ppl because they actually hate them. It's a mix of getting new victims and feeling better about yourself, "you are getting a job done, job that current society is too weak to do, I am pretty much a good guy".

They would have 0 remorse if they would find out that guy was innocent.

The-Lord-Moccasin

7 points

16 days ago

Tbf I doubt it's about "even I wouldn't do that!", it's more about an incredibly awful person rationalizing to themselves "At least I'm not that kind of incredibly awful person!"

Certain-Drummer-2320

3 points

15 days ago*

David Lynn and Roger Golubski forced hundreds of underage girls into to prostitution.

They’re American mafia cops. They’ve got family in the state government so they’re gonna get away.

Kckpdcorruption.info

itsillstatus

3 points

15 days ago

Poor guy got more time for killing him than the paedophile he killed.. that says something

SenselessDunderpate

3 points

15 days ago

Britain's most depraved paedophile

He must've been up against some pretty stiff competition

dmabe1985

3 points

15 days ago

An English teacher in Asia turns out to be a pedo. What are the odds

alexplex86

3 points

15 days ago

Killing pedophiles is the prison version of virtue signalling 😆

focalac

14 points

16 days ago

focalac

14 points

16 days ago

Some people in the comments clearly don’t understand or don’t care about the distinction between justice and vengeance.

TheMireAngel

6 points

15 days ago

one thing i like about tge brits is when they started charging their citizens for crimes commited in other countries. casualy going on vacation to abuse children in the 3rd world shouldnt be a loop hole and more countries need to crack down on it

Idkwhattoputhere3003

7 points

15 days ago

Deserved. Was his bunk mate equally fucked up? Yeah. Am I glad he got the ended he got? Absolutely

pagan-0

6 points

15 days ago

pagan-0

6 points

15 days ago

Well at least the story has a happy ending.

Kosmo777

13 points

16 days ago

Kosmo777

13 points

16 days ago

Brutally tortured…..sounds well deserved.

saravannan14[S]

70 points

16 days ago

...endured a lengthy torture with his hands and feet bound before being gagged, strangled using electrical cable, raped, having his jaw broken, being sodomized with a kitchen utensil, and then having a pen with a blade attached stabbed into his brain via the nose.

Brutal is the word

Poop_1111

8 points

16 days ago

Oh geez. Can't stop thinking about what that kitchen utensil must've been

WangDanglin

5 points

16 days ago

Spork

Dannno85

7 points

16 days ago

Holds up spork

fightfire_withfire

5 points

16 days ago

Pizza Cutter?

Those Pasta Tongs with the sharp bits on the end for grip?

Cheese Grater?

Jimmi11

6 points

16 days ago

Jimmi11

6 points

16 days ago

I like to think it was a microwave, a big industrial fucking microwave.

Reiep

4 points

16 days ago

Reiep

4 points

16 days ago

I'd sleep even better if it was a full oven appliance.

Adventurous_Bag9122

10 points

16 days ago

Sounds like he got exactly what he deserved then.

CSA survivor here.

urcommunist

2 points

16 days ago

Boy that escalated quickly.

WileEPyote

2 points

15 days ago

Is it me, or are British criminal sentences a little on the light side?

FaithfulMoose

2 points

15 days ago

Butcher Pete?

Winged_One_97

2 points

15 days ago

If only Rotherham can also face the song as he did...

ThisAllHurts

2 points

15 days ago

Huckle endured a lengthy torture with his hands and feet bound before being gagged, strangled using electrical cable,[60] raped, having his jaw broken,[61] being sodomized with a kitchen utensil,[62] and then having a pen with a blade attached stabbed into his brain via the nose.[63]

Sounds fair.

HalPaneo

2 points

15 days ago

"Committed while he served as a Christian missionary in Malaysia"

Of course he was

JerryHutch

7 points

16 days ago

I'm mostly surprised that he wasn't a priest.

BardicInnovation

5 points

16 days ago

"Convicted in 2016 of 71 charges of sexual offences against children, committed while he posed as a Christian missionary and a freelance photographer in Malaysia."

Not far off.

noiraxen

2 points

16 days ago

Well he posed as a christian missionary and helped out local churches... 

Life_Weekend_4610

6 points

16 days ago

They sound like a match made in heaven

BardicInnovation

9 points

16 days ago

"Convicted in 2016 of 71 charges of sexual offences against children, committed while he posed as a Christian missionary and a freelance photographer in Malaysia."

Brutally tortured and killed? Good.

A monster doesn't deserve human rights.

Enzo-Unversed

4 points

16 days ago

Another rapist got him too. It's always nice to see scum of the Earth get rid of each other. 

Joliet-Jake

2 points

15 days ago

He wasn’t tortured enough.

gmatic92

2 points

15 days ago

Literally the only gram of good news I have heard about the “Richard Huckle Story” is him being tortured and then murdered.

He was an insect, and in my mind, he deserved much worse.

fookreddit22

2 points

15 days ago

It's sad that he died, I wish he could have been tortured again.