Source: Women are Human
UK — Hull, England. A sex offender who is facing charges for the prison homicide of a serial child rapist has told the court that his history of psychopathy, mixed personality disorder and gender identity disorder diminishes his responsibility for the killing.
Paul Fitzgerald, who has self-identified as a woman named “Keira,” was handed an indefinite prison sentence at age 19 following a sex attack on a dog walker. The 2009 conviction was for the crimes of Assault With Intent To Commit A Sexual Offence, Possession Of An Offensive Weapon and Breach Of A Sexual Harm Prevention Order. While investigating the incident, detectives found a diary entry in which Mr Fitzgerald bragged, “I love raping women.” The diary laid out his disturbing fantasies, and noted, “Even if I was going to reoffend they couldn’t stop me.” One of his fantasies involved “killing and eating people,” he said during a psychiatric evaluation. Mr Fitzgerald previously sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl and an elderly woman in Wales.
In 2019, Mr Fitzgerald decided to kill other inmates at HMP Full Sutton, starting with fellow sex offender Richard Huckle, and moving on to “two or three other” prisoners, the court heard.
Mr Huckle, aged 33, was serving 22 life terms. After moving to Malaysia at age 19, Mr Huckle posed as a philanthropist, and used his position as a English teacher for Christian orphanages to sexually abuse up to 200 children in a nine-year span. During that time, he wrote a book for fellow Western pedophiles living in Asia, bragged online about his abuses of children, sold images of the abuses on the dark web, and kept a ledger on which he awarded himself “Paedo Points” based on severity of acts. Mr Huckle was finally arrested in the UK when he flew into Gatwick to visit family for Christmas. Investigators found 20,253 pedophiliac images on Mr Huckle’s hard drive, many of which showed him sexually abusing children.
Mr Fitzerald assembled a “murder bag,” and on October 13, 2019, he bound Mr Huckle’s wrist with cable ties.
“When he was laid down with his pants down and he knew what was coming, he did not enjoy it I am sure,” Mr Fitzgerald would later tell Dr Shenoy, who evaluated his mental health for trial. “I knew what it feels like, but he doesn’t. Rape was more about him getting a taste of that.”
He penetrated Mr Huckle’s anus with a blunt object, and forcibly inserted a pen into his brain. Mr Fitzgerald strangled the bound man with an electrical cable sheath and sliced him with a homemade blade.
Prison officers were alerted about the incident by two inmates. They found Mr Fitzgerald straddling Mr Huckle, and restrained the former. Attempts to revive Mr Huckle proved “fruitless.”
The killer is now on trial at Hull Crown Court. He denies the charge of murder, arguing that his psychiatric diagnoses of gender identity disorder, mixed personality disorder and psychopathy reduce his liability for the crime. He is asking the court to instead declare the deed Manslaughter By Reason of Diminished Responsibility.
Mr Fitzgerald is being held in isolation from other inmates. At first appearing “animated” and to be reveling “in the attention” in the days following the homicide, Mr Fitzgerald now seems “emotionless” and “calm” and shows no remorse, prison staff reported.
