Why weren’t Malaysian police tipped off about British paedophile? Children’s NGO asks
Mariza Abdulkadir, interim executive director of the Malaysian charity said she could not understand why there was no collaboration between authorities from both countries on the matter to nip the abuses earlier until Huckle’s arrest upon return to the UK in December 2014.
“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,” she told the UK Daily Mail in an interview, referring to the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA).
“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 was quoted saying.
In a separate interview with Sky News, Mariza criticised the NCA for failing to warn community leaders in Malaysia about the extent of his crimes until 16 months after his arrest.
“We were actually approached by the British police back in December 2014.
“They didn’t give us much information so we went in there with nothing ― so we approached the communities as an non-governmental organisation, doing prevention work on child sexual abuse and working with communities and giving them safety workshops and talks to parents and the community leaders. Absolutely no information was given to them at all,” she told the broadcaster.
Mariza said the parents and carers of the victims were still in denial even after learning about what he did.
“We are now working at getting the message through to them that, 'It’s not your fault, not the children’s fault'. Sexual abuse of their children was not something they wanted to even contemplate,” she explained.
Huckle yesterday faced a life sentence after admitting a string of sex attacks on children as young as six months, some from poor Christian families in Malaysia.
The 30 year-old took pictures and video footage of himself abusing the children which he uploaded to the dark web ― a hard to access part of the Internet often used for illegal activity.
Investigators found over 20,000 indecent images on his computer, while Huckle also kept a ledger of his attacks and wrote a manual called Paedophiles And Poverty: Child Lover Guide.
Graphic details of dozens of sexual offences by Huckle emerged for the first time yesterday as his sentencing hearing started in London.
Huckle, faced a total of 91 charges including against 23 children in Kuala Lumpur, where he set himself up as an English teacher.
His victims were aged between six months and 12 years and the offences were committed between 2006 and 2014, AFP reported.
He initially denied all 91 charges but later admitted 71 of them during a string of further hearings. The charges include 14 counts of rape and 31 of sexual assault.
Judge Peter Rook has said he was considering a life sentence in the case, which he said was one of “exceptional gravity”.
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