Prisoner Paul Fitzgerald tortured Britain’s worst paedophile Richard Huckle to death, so he got a ‘taste’ of his own medicine, a court has been told.
Huckle was strangled with an electric cable and then a pen was shoved forcefully into his brain. Fitzgerald also sexually assaulted him with a kitchen utensil.
Paedophile Richard Huckle
Fitzgerald, 30, is currently on trial at Hull Crown Court for murdering Richard Huckle, 33, at HMP Full Sutton on October 13 2019. The prisoner was detained indefinitely in 2009 for sexually assaulting a dog walker and is accused of murdering Huckle between 10.30am and 11.00am in his own cell at Full Sutton prison, a Class A facility near Pocklington.
The court has been told how Huckle was strangled with electric flex and had a pen rammed into his head. Fitzgerald also sexually assaulted him with a four-inch long kitchen implement so he got a ‘taste’ of what his victims had suffered and stabbed him in the neck with a shank made by inserting a screw into a melted toothbrush.
Huckle
Another inmate, Ronald Mariner found Fitzgerald astride Huckle, whose hands and feet had been handcuffed, and he had been strangled with a ligature. There was a pool of blood around his head, prosecutor Alistair Neil Macdonald QC, told the court.
Mugshot of Richard Huckle released after he was given 22 life sentences at the Old Bailey
Two prison officers rushed into the cell to find Fitzgerald on top of the paedophile as he appeared to be whispering something into Huckle’s ear. They dragged him out of the cell and he confessed: ” I think I killed him, he’s dead.”
The prolonged attack was “designed to humiliate and degrade,” the court heard.
The day after the murder Fitzgerald told Full Sutton’s director of mental health that he was planning to murder two or three people and that he would have liked to have cooked body parts. He reportedly told the doctor that he had been thinking about killing and eating people for a long time.
Fitzgerald wanted Huckle “to feel what all these kids were feeling,” Hull Crown Court was told.
Huckle was serving 22 life sentences for the sexual abuse of 191 children in Malaysia, some as young as six months old.
Prison staff tried to administer CPR to Huckle and use a defibrillator on him, but he was pronounced dead at 12.30pm on the day of the attack.
His autopsy concluded he died of strangulation, had bruises and abrasions on his body and had been sexually assaulted with a four inch long implement.
Fitzgerald denies murdering Huckle but accepts killing him by reason of diminished responsibility.
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