A British zoologist has been jailed in Australia, after pleading guilty to r@ping and t0rturing dozens of dogs in abuse that spanned decades.
Adam Britton, who grew up in
West Yorkshire before moving to Australia, pleaded guilty to 56 charges
relating to b€stiality and an!mal cruelty. The 53-year-old also admitted to
four counts of accessing child abus€ material.
“Your depravity falls outside any ordinary
human conception,” Chief Justice Michael Grant told him, after asking the
public to leave the court because of how “graphic” the details of his
atrocities are, according to the Australian Associated Press.
Northern Territory Supreme
Court heard the crocodile expert admitted to luring people on Gumtree to give
him custody of their pets, while they were travelling or moving for work.
He had filmed himself t0rturing
the animals until almost all d!€d.
It all took place in his
“torture room," a shipping container fitted with recording equipment. He
then uploaded the videos in secret online chatrooms under pseudonyms.
Exchanges with “like-minded”
people detail how he began molesting horses at the age of 13.
“I was sadistic as a child to animals, but I
had repressed it. In the last few years I let it out again, and now I can’t
stop. I don’t want to. :),” he wrote in one message shown to the court.
Britton tortured at least 42
dogs, killing 39 of them, according to court documents seen by the BBC.
The files only detail his
crimes over the 18 months before his arrest, but fill more than 90 pages.
British crocodile expert Adam
Britton jailed for 10 years for s?*ually abus!ng dogs
Britton also admitted to s€xually abusing his
own Swiss Shepherd pets, Ursa and Bolt, for almost a decade.
“My own dogs are family and I have limits,” he
justified himself in a Telegram chat entered into evidence.
“I only badly mistreat other dogs… I have no
emotional bond to them, they are toys pure and simple. And [there are] plenty
more where they came from.”
Asked how to dispose of the
dogs’ remains, Britton, who shared his huge property on the outskirts of Darwin
with eight crocodiles, said “some I feed to other animals”.
He has now been sentenced to 10
years in jail.
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