Altar BoyBeat Lover to Death Gets Convicted after being Acquitted
Second killing for Christopher Hunnisett, 28 who claims he was sex abuse victim. Attempt to flee London court foiled by security guards after murder verdict
A former altar boy leapt out of the dock today (11 May) after being convicted of murdering his gay lover he falsely suspected was a paedophile.
A court in London heard how 28-year-old Christopher Hunnisett from Hastings, Southern England, claimed he had been the victim of sex abuse and wanted to rid the world of sex offenders.
So he beat Peter Bick, 57, over the head with a hammer even though there was no evidence at all he was a paedophile. He then went to the nearby police station to confess to the killing.
Bick was found dead in his studio flat in Bexhill, on England’s south coast on 11 January last year (2011), where he lived alone.
Bick and Hunnisett had met online and started a sexual relationship. But Hunnisett planned to kill him.
Hunnisett had already been convicted of a previous count of murder, again of an alleged paedophile, Reverend Ronald Glazebrook, 81, at his home in St Leonards on Sea, in 2002.
He had known the priest, who he had met through the church, since being a young boy and had later become his lodger.
He initially claimed he had found the Glazebrook dead in the bathroom, panicked and then dismembered and disposed of his body.
However the Appeal Court acquitted him in September 2010, after he had served eight years, when Hunnisett alleged that the cleric sexually abused him throughout his teens.
He changed his story to say he punched the vicar for trying to grope him in the bathroom – and claimed he then fell in the bath and died.
But just four months after he was acquitted, he killed Bick.
After being found guilty of Bick’s murder, Hunnisett tried to flee by leaping out of the dock but was pulled back and held by eight security guards. He then wept as the verdict was read.
Hunnisett had denied the murder charge when the case came up at Lewes Crown Court in April last year, claiming he was standing up to ‘evil’.
Mr Justice Saunders adjourned the case for sentencing at Woolwich Crown Court, London, on 22 May.
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