MikeSouth.com readers know that we don’t cotton to animal abusers and promoters of animal abuse such as bestiality. This revolting news item really stuck in our collective craw:
A renowned British crocodile expert who worked with the BBC and National Geographic has been jailed for 10 years and five months in Australia, after admitting to raping, torturing and killing dozens of dogs, in a case which horrified the land down under.
Adam Britton, a celebrated zoologist who has worked on National Geographic productions, last week pleaded guilty to 56 charges relating to bestiality and animal cruelty.
He has been imprisoned for 10 years and five months in Australia, after admitting to sexually abusing dozens of dogs. He also admitted to four counts of accessing and sharing child abuse material.
The Northern Territory (NT) Supreme Court heard that the 53-year-old filmed himself torturing the animals until almost all died, and then shared the videos online under pseudonyms.
His abuse went unnoticed for years, until a clue was found in one of his videos. Britton was arrested in April 2022 after a search of his rural Darwin property, which also uncovered the aforementioned child abuse material on his laptop.
Unspeakable crimes
Chief Justice Michael Grant described Adam Britton’s “grotesque” and “unspeakable” crimes against animals as he sentenced him. Much of the detail of Britton’s crimes are too graphic to publish, and so “grotesque” that the Chief Justice warned the courtroom they could cause “nervous shock”.
As the facts of the case were read aloud, some members of the public rushed outside. Others watching from the gallery cried and mouthed insults at Britton. He at times hung his head and reached for tissues.
Calling the animal cruelty “devious”, Justice Grant said the “unalloyed pleasure” Adam Britton took in torturing the animals was “sickeningly evident”.
“[Your] depravity falls entirely outside any ordinary human conception,” he said.
Abuse spanning decades
Locals have told media he seemed like a quiet but passionate defender of animals. He once hosted Sir David Attenborough while the veteran broadcaster filmed part of a docuseries on his property.
But he was harboring a “sadistic sexual interest” in them, court documents indicate. Exchanges with “like-minded” perverts in online chatrooms detail how Britton 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 tendered to the court.
For at least the past decade, Britton had exploited his own pets and manipulated other dog owners into giving him theirs.
“My own dogs are family and I have limits,” he explained 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.”
He tortured at least 42 dogs, killing 39 of them, according to court documents. The files only detail his crimes over the 18 months before his arrest, but still fill more than 90 pages.
Adam Britton could be eligible for parole in September 2028. The adult industry’s surviving promoters of dog fucking are still at large.
