Paedophile Richard Huckle wanted to 'mould' victim into 'perfect wife'
Richard Huckle, 30, is facing multiple life sentences after he carried out horrific sex crimes against up to 200 children in Malaysia over nine years.
He has admitted an unprecedented number of sex offences against poor Christian girls and boys in Kuala Lumpur between the ages of six months to 12 years.
Richard Huckle was arrested at Gatwick Airport
Ahead of his sentencing, Huckle told a psychiatrist he wanted to put "all the madness behind me" and seek out a South Indian woman.
He also blamed his crimes on "external influences", according to the report.
But prosecutor Brian O'Neill QC, pointed out a disturbing post Huckle made in 2013 on the dark web site TLZ - The Love Zone.
It it, he detailed how he had abused four girls from the same family and earmarked one of them to be his future wife.
Describing how he had "fallen in love" with South Asia, he wrote: "I have gotten particularly close with one family whom I have known about six years.
"I have sexual contact with four of the girls in that family and though the family obviously does not approve it they try to work around it as they know I can be a potentially valuable asset to them in future."
On marrying one of the girls when she turns 18, he wrote: "I feel my situation could strongly benefit me in that my partner is still quite young and I have known her since she was seven and I can influence her young mind to mould her into the perfect wife.
"My ambition once married would be for our family to be like foster carers for children, temporary or long term."
He wanted to have children of his own but added he was "not a big fan of incest".
He went on: "With having such a long standing relationship with my wife and being over 10 years older than her I would hope I would be able to pacify and influence her into not reporting me as I would make it clear to her that she would lose her 'middle class lifestyle' if I got busted."
He added: "Marriage certainly is not suitable for a paedo to a western woman (there are women who would be safe but they would be extremely unattractive) but you can get away with it a lot more if you live in and marry a south Asian girl."
Earlier, the court heard how Huckle's parents were so horrified at what their son had done they begged police to take him away.
The freelance photographer, from Ashford in Kent, began the abuse on a gap year to south east Asia at the age of 19, and masqueraded as a devout Christian and English teacher to gain the trust of his victims and their families. He went on to post a stream pictures and video of himself raping children which were shared worldwide on the dark web.
He even set up a crowd funding enterprise inviting other paedophiles to pay Bitcoins for access to more images.
Acting on information, Huckle was arrested by the National Crime Agency when he touched down at Gatwick airport en route to spend Christmas at home with his family in 2014.
Mr O'Neill said Huckle was bailed to return to his parents' home after refusing investigators' questions.
The next day, his mother asked him about the allegations and he admitted he had sex with children.
Mr O'Neill said: "His mother was extremely upset and angry. She and his father called the police and asked them to take their son away.
"Both have made witness statements in support of this prosecution."
Huckle has admitted 71 child sex offences, including multiple rapes, against 23 identified children aged between six months and 12 years old.
However, the NCA were not able to crack all the encrypted files on Huckle's computer which could contain indecent images of far more victims totalling up to 200.
He will be sentenced at the Old Bailey by Judge Peter Rook QC.
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Richard Huckle was arrested at Gatwick Airport
Britain's worst paedophile dreamed of getting married so he could create a foster home and abuse 'a cycle of children' that came through his care
- Sex offender carried out nine-year abuse campaign on Malaysian children
- He was finally arrested after Australian police tipped off UK authorities
- After he admitted crimes his parents didn't want him in their home
- Court heard today that he wrote he wanted foster children to abuse
- Judge had to watch some of the sick footage to decide on seriousness
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Britain's worst paedophile wanted to become a foster parent so he had a continuous supply of children to abuse, a court heard.
Depraved Richard Huckle, 30, spent nine years raping and sexually assaulting children in south-east Asia but was finally arrested at Gatwick Airport in December 2014.
The former grammar schoolboy made a sickening confession about wanting foster children in a post on a notorious paedophile website where he shared his graphic images and videos.
Britain's worst paedophile Richard Huckle claimed he wanted to become a foster parent so he could abuse the children who came through his care, a court heard today
He wrote that he wanted to wed one of the children he had been abusing since she was seven.
He posted: 'My ambition once married would be for our family to be like foster carers for children, temporarily or long term... I would like a cycle of children to come through my house.'
The court also heard today that Huckle's parents asked police to take him away after he admitted his horrific crimes.
Huckle was caught with more than 20,000 image
At the second day of his sentencing hearing, prosecutor Brian O'Neill QC said before being charged Huckle was bailed under strict conditions to the home of his parents, Edwin and Christina, in Ashford, Kent.
'His father had been at the airport to meet him and investigators had conducted a search of the family address while he was in custody,' said the prosecutor.
'His mother questioned him about the allegations and he admitted to her that he had sexual activity with children aged three to 13.
'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.'
Richard Huckle (left) faces a long jail term for a horrific rape campaign against children in south-east Asia. His parents, Edwin (right) and Christina, did not want him under their roof after hearing of his crimes
Huckle faces up to 22 life sentences at the Old Bailey after admitting to an unprecedented 71 charges, including rape, sexual assault, and sexual activity with a child.
Judge Peter Rook QC compared the case to that of shamed Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for sexually assaulting a baby.
Although he agreed with the prosecutor it was a more serious case, the judge indicated he would not be considering a full life term, meaning Huckle is likely to get a conventional life sentence.
Earlier today Huckle's sickening videos were played in court. Police trawled hours of footage using an expert to identify the 30-year-old from his hands, forearms, thighs and privates.
The clips were played so Judge Peter Rook QC can decide on the seriousness of the 71 counts Huckle has pleaded guilty to. The screens were not visible to anyone in the public gallery.
Huckle was an 'unassuming and uncharismatic man' according to the minister of the church he attended in Kent.
The reverend told his sentencing hearing the paedophile was a 'peripheral figure' who 'didn't seem interested in taking part' in events.
Huckle posed as an English teacher and Christian volunteer before grooming the children for sex
The minister said no one in Kent, where Huckle had attended church between 2002 and 2007, had been a victim of the sex offender.
Huckle targeted an impoverished Christian community in Malaysia where he posed as a student, photographer and English teacher to groom his victims.
He took pictures and videos of himself raping and abusing young girls and boys and even a baby wearing a nappy.
Huckle bragged of the attacks in online blogs and wrote a 60-page handbook for how other paedophiles could groom poverty-stricken children in developing countries.
He sold the images he made of the abuse for Bitcoins on paedophile websites on the dark web - the encrypted version of the internet.
Huckle awarded himself 'PedoPoints' for carrying out the attacks and used a crowdfunding website to finance the abuse.
He began the nine-year campaign in 2006, aged just 19, and it is believed he assaulted up to 200 children before his arrest in December 2014 when he was caught with more than 20,000 indecent images.
Posts on Facebook show Huckle being welcomed into schools and institutions (including this orphanage in India which is not suggested to have any connection with Huckle's trial) while he posed as a 'photographer' who would 'teach the children about photography'
It took more than an hour for the charges to be put to Huckle at an earlier hearing, in what is believed to be the worst case of its kind.
The charges relate to the horrific sexual abuse of 23 girls and boys aged between six months and 12 years. Some 22 of the victims are from Malaysia while one is Cambodian.
But Mr O'Neill today said his online ledger contained reference to a possible 191 vicitms.
Among other offences, Huckle, formerly of Ashford, Kent, pleaded guilty to 31 counts of sexual assault of a child under the age of 13; thirteen counts of rape of a child under 13 and making 20,253 indecent images.
DID UK POLICE ALLOW BRITAIN'S WORST PAEDOPHILE TO STRIKE AGAIN?
Huckle was arrested in Britain after a tip-off from Australian authorities
By Richard Shears in Kuala Lumpur for the Daily Mail
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 criticsed the NCA for failing to tell community leaders in Malaysia about the extent of his crimes until 16 months after his arrest.
