WARNING – DISTURBING DETAILS: Paul Fitzgerald is accused of strangling Richard Huckle and later saying he would like to have cooked bits of the body and gone on to kill other inmates

A “notorious predatory paedophile” was allegedly strangled to death by a fellow prisoner who then said he wanted to cook his body parts, a court has heard.

Paul Fitzgerald, 30, strangled Richard Huckle with an electrical cable sheath and forcefully inserted a pen into his brain, the trial at Hull Crown Court heard.

Fitzgerald later said he would liked to have cooked bits of Huckle’s body, and would have gone on to kill other inmates but he was “having too much fun”.

Jurors were told that Huckle was murdered in a “prolonged attack designed to humiliate and degrade him” at HMP Full Sutton, in East Yorkshire, on October 13, 2019.

Fitzgerald denies murder.

Opening the case, prosecutor Alistair Neil MacDonald QC said the attack was carried out as “a form of punishment” for the crimes Huckle had committed.

Mr MacDonald added that the attack was “carefully planned and considered” by Fitzgerald.