A 30-year-old prisoner has been found guilty of murdering a notorious pedophile in jail.
Paul Fitzgerald said he wanted Richard Huckle, also known as Britain’s worst pedophile, to feel what his victims had felt.
He reportedly used an electric cable sheath to strangle Huckle before inserting an object into his orifice and a pen into his brain.
After a four-day trial, jurors took an hour to convict the 30-year-old of murder. Alistair MacDonald QC said the killing was designed to ‘humiliate and degrade’ the pedo.
The prosecutor said that Huckle was a ‘predatory pedophile’ who was popular in the media. He had been extradited and tried in the United Kingdom for a huge number of sexual assaults.
Fitzgerald said to doctors that he had sexually assaulted the pedo to make him feel what his victims had experienced.
“He felt that it was poetic justice and he wanted Richard Huckle to feel what all those children had felt,” the barrister said.
“He said that Richard Huckle was a man who raped and abused children for fun and that he suspected that Richard Huckle had done more than merely rape his victims.
“The insertion of an object into his anus, and possibly into his brain as well, was, say the prosecution, a form of punishment associated with the offending which had led Mr Huckle to prison.”
“This was a carefully planned and executed attack, in the course of which Mr Huckle had been subjected to a prolonged attack also designed to humiliate and degrade him,” Mr. MacDonald added.
He also said that Fitzgerald told East Yorkshire prison staff that he ‘enjoyed’ it and would’ve gone on to kill other prisoners but he was ‘having too much fun.’
Fitzgerald said his medical conditions, including gender identity disorder, psychopathy and mixed personality disorder, prevented him from exercising self-control.
“My problem is I just don’t have the ability to control myself,” he said. “I don’t have the ability to look at people and see them as human beings. I don’t value them, I don’t care about them.
“I don’t feel bad about hurting people, I don’t have the capacity to feel remorse.”
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