VILE ABUSE
‘World’s worst animal abuser’ Adam Britton who raped puppies & tortured dogs is JAILED as judge slams ‘sickening’ acts
The judge warned people to leave the courtroom as he described the 'grotesque' detail of Britton's crimes
A BRIT dubbed the "world's worst animal abuser" has been jailed for 10 years after raping, torturing and killing dozens of dogs.
Adam Britton, 53, had confessed to 60 charges relating to relating to animal abuse and bestiality inside a shipping container "torture room".
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Sentencing Britton at Darwin Supreme Court, Chief Justice Michael Grant told the disgraced university researcher: "Your depravity falls outside any ordinary human conception.
"Your sheer and unalloyed pleasure is sickeningly evident from the recorded material."
The judge warned people to leave the courtroom as he described the "grotesque" detail of Britton's crimes - which are too graphic to be published.
Britton - who appeared on BBC and National Geographic productions and filmed with Sir David Attenborough at his property - was jailed for ten years and five months.
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He has also been banned from owning any animals for the rest of his life.
The twisted dog rapist was snared in April 2022 - eight years after the sick attacks, which saw 39 animals die, began.
He had managed to get 42 dogs from Gumtree over two years before brutally assaulting many of them, court documents revealed.
Britton, from West Yorkshire, took the pets away from unsuspecting families who were unable to keep the dogs due to work or health-related issues.
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The Brit once even described watching young children cry as he walked away with their pets.
Animals were tortured, raped or killed at his home and a nearby property between 2020 and 2022 - and even abused his own white Swiss Shepherds, Ursa and Bolt.
Britton used a shipping container on his remote property to inflict torture on the animals.
He posted the sick footage on Telegram under a series of fake names to engage with like-minded abusers.
In one chilling message on the site, the sicko wrote: "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."
Britton was harbouring a "sadistic sexual interest" in animals, court documents said.
Who is Adam Britton?
THE sadistic 53-year-old rubbed shoulders with Sir David Attenborough and Prince Harry before he was arrested for his horrifying crimes in 2023.
He was a respected senior researcher at Charles Darwin University in Australia as well as a crocodile expert.
Britton was born in West Yorkshire and managed to get a degree in Zoology from the University of Leeds as well as a PhD from Bristol.
In 1996, he jetted off to Australia and set up a conservation site for wild crocodiles called Big Gecko.
Britton was married to a biologist and wildlife ranger named Erin but she appears to have dropped his surname online.
The dog killer led a double life as he carried out the abuse with there being no suggestion Erin knew anything about her husband's crimes.
They both worked with the crocs and managed to sell footage of their beasts to places like the BBC and National Geographic.
Britton was a popular face in Australia and regularly used his social media to promote his business as well as show off his animals
In a Telegram chat entered in evidence, he said: "My own dogs are family and I have limits.
"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."
It was his vile online posting that saw him brought to justice, when an online sleuth noticed a distinctive collar on the dog in one of his videos - and contacted cops.
A month after the clip was posted, police raided his Darwin home and arrested him.
Cops seized 44 items including computers, phones, cameras, external hard drives, tools and weapons.
They also found 15 files containing child abuse material on one of his laptops.
At the start of July, a fuming local spray-painted the words "dog killer" on the road outside the property.
And at court in February, raging protesters called for Britton to face the death penalty.
The once-celebrated zoologist has been in custody since his arrest in April 2022 and will face a non-parole period of six years.
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His sentencing had been pushed back twice after his legal team requested time to investigate psychiatric reports.
Britton's lawyer had argued his crimes were driven by a rare disorder causing intense, atypical sexual interests.
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