According to Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, PDRM helped UK police by sharing intelligence but their help was not sought to arrest the British paedophile who reportedly raped scores of children in Malaysia over an eight-year period until he was nabbed in 2014 in the UK.
Is it Standard Operating Procedure by PDRM or the IGP to wait for an instruction, appeal or request by authorities of another country to arrest any person who has breached laws in Malaysia?
UK National Crime Agency (NCA) had informed Malaysian authorities in November 2014 about Richard Huckle and yet Malaysian authorities did not have sufficient evidence to arrest him, according to Nick Brennan, Deputy Director of NCA, that led to Huckle’s arrest in December 2014.
Why had the all-knowing omniscient Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar not uphold the spirit of Section 3(3) of the Police Act 1967 which states that the role of the police is to safeguard the law and safety of the country, maintain the peace and security and to prevent crimes when dealing with immoral specimens like Richard Huckle.
Using this argument alongside existing laws for aggravated rape in the Penal Code under Section 376 (d) which is rape without the consent when she is under 16 years of age and Section 376 (e) which is rape with or without her consent when she is under 12 years of age, whoever commits rape (or in this particular case, aggravated rape) be sentenced to up to 20 years and shall be liable to whipping.
To date, there are over 400 foreigners and over 600 Malaysians who are on death row in Malaysia and more than 30 percent of detainees in Malaysian prisons are foreigners. If the government of Malaysia and her judiciary have no qualms in sentencing people of different nationalities for various crimes, then why did the IGP drag his feet when it came to arresting Richard Huckle, despite knowing about it in November 2014? How did the Malaysian Immigration authorities allow a man of Huckle’s perverse paedophiliac nature conveniently leave the country according to his whims and fancies despite being prompted for sexual crimes against helpless innocent children?
Funny that despite the government championing freedom of speech, that voices of dissent, particularly by opposition leaders, cartoonists and human rights activists, get the chop and charge, instantaneously barring them from leaving the country but paedophiles like Richard Huckle face no such hurdle whatsoever.
This happened in our own backyard for so many years and went undetected by the authorities without any suspicion. Richard Huckle could not have survived unchartered and being clearly out of the radar of the authorities for that long unless he had local accomplices with him – protecting him, defending him and covering up his trails so as to ensure that this disgusting indulgence continues to thrive in their own dark worlds.
The Malaysian authorities’ lacklustre behaviour led to a paedophile leaving the country boldly escaping the radar only to be caught in the UK.
Why didn’t the Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar use existing laws in Malaysia to arrest Richard Huckle for raping children here when he knew about it more than18 months ago?
As the weight of his crime is absolutely herculean, the Malaysian authorities had temporarily lost its moral compass by allowing a paedophile walk daringly amongst us and fearlessly left the country.
An immediate independent investigation on the lack of efficient response by the authorities must be launched the soonest on Richard Huckle’s case, its findings made public and a white paper on the rise of paedophilia be tabled in Parliament in an emergency sitting called by the Dewan Rakyat.