Episode 259 - Richard Huckle: Britain's Worst Paedophile
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🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The victim was 33-year-old Richard Huckle.
Dubbed by the media as "The Gap Year Paedophile", Huckle was serving a life sentence for carrying out a 9-year-long, systematic campaign of abuse against some of the world's poorest children.
Huckle documented his atrocities on the dark web, authored a how-to-guide for paedophiles, and contributed to one of the largest nonce-networks ever discovered.
This is the story of Richard Huckle and the incredible officers who brought him down.
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