Adam Britton, a 53-year-old British zoologist residing in Australia, has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to 60 charges, including 56 related to bestiality and animal cruelty, and four counts of accessing child abuse material.
According to court documents, Britton engaged in the prolonged and sadistic abuse of at least 42 dogs, resulting in the deaths of 39 animals.
The court heard that he lured pet owners into entrusting him with their animals, which he then tortured and killed in a purpose-built “torture room.” This was a specially equipped shipping container where he would film himself inflicting horrific abuse on the animals.
He would then share these disturbing videos with like-minded individuals in secret online chatrooms, using pseudonyms to conceal his identity.
In these online exchanges, Britton revealed a disturbing history of animal abuse, admitting that he had begun molesting horses at the age of 13.
He wrote that he had repressed these sadistic tendencies for a time but had eventually embraced them, stating, “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.”
The court described his actions as “depraved” and “outside any ordinary human conception.”