Is this enough punishment, Nazir Razak questions Richard Huckle life sentence
Nizam Bakeri
June 7, 2016 15:16 MYT
June 7, 2016 15:16 MYT
The British paedophile who preyed on Christian children in an impoverished part of Kuala Lumpur was sentenced on Monday to life with a minimum term of 25 years - File pix
“Is this enough punishment?”
That is the question posed by CIMB chairman Datuk Seri Nazir Razak on his Instagram today relating to UK paedophile Richard Huckle's life sentence.
The British paedophile who preyed on Christian children in an impoverished part of Kuala Lumpur was sentenced on Monday to life with a minimum term of 25 years.
The prolific offender has already spent 488 days in jail, so he only faces more than 23 years behind bars before a parole board can consider his release.
Nazir, who is the brother of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, also highlighted Huckle’s heinous acts of sharing his crime online and keeping a diary of his activities.
His dissatisfaction over the punishment is made clear by urging the future prison inmates of Huckle to “mete out more just retribution.”
Sex offenders are known to have difficult time in prison. According to AP California, nearly 30 percent of homicide victims in prison are sex offenders.
In 2012, pedophile Mitchell Harrison had his stomach cut out in the brutal attack at Frankland Prison, one of UK's toughest jail.
Convicted child sex abuser and former Roman Catholic priest John Geoghan died in 2004 after he was apparently strangled by a fellow inmate at a Massachusetts prison.