Khalid said this will help the Malaysian police gather more information on the convicted paedophile’s activities during his time in the country.

The IGP added he is hopeful their British counterparts will extend its cooperation with the Malaysian police.

“We will apply for permission to meet and interview Huckle in prison. We hope the British police will not hesitate to share all the evidence they have on the sexual crimes the convict had committed on Malaysian victims.

“As of now, we have already identified two of the victims. We will continue our cooperation with the British authorities so that we can continue to identify the others,” he said in a press conference today.

Khalid explained that the Malaysian police failed to act further when the case first emerged in 2014 as information was insufficient at the time.

He also said British police had not consulted them when they were in Malaysia to interview the victims.

Huckle, dubbed England’s worst paedophile, was sentenced to life in prison for his sexual crimes against children, aged six months to 11 years, from poor families in Malaysia and Cambodia.

Huckle first visited Malaysia on a teaching placement in 2005. He then moved to Cambodia the following year where he took images of his abuse of a three year old child, while staying with the family of the girl.

He returned to Malaysia in 2006, where he abused and took photographs of two sisters, aged four and six, again while staying with the family of the girls he abused.

In 2007, he came back to stay with their family after taking up a teaching post in their village and continued to abuse the girls until 2014.

Huckle was arrested at Gatwick Airport in London on Dec 19, 2014 after Australian police tipped off the authorities in the UK, when he returned to the country to visit his family for Christmas.