Former BBC zoologist Adam Britton, who filmed himself raping and torturing dogs, is condemned for 'inconceivable depravity' by judge as he is jailed for ten years

A crocodile master and erstwhile BBC zoologist who filmed himself raping and torturing dogs has been jailed for much than 10 years successful Australia for what a judge condemned arsenic 'inconceivable depravity'. 

Adam Robert Corden Britton was sentenced successful Darwin Supreme Court on Thursday having pleaded blameworthy to 56 offences related to nan torture and intersexual exploitation of much than 42 dogs connected his agrarian property.

The 53-year-old, who was calved successful West Yorkshire and earned a PhD successful zoology from Bristol University earlier emigrating to Australia, was sentenced to 10 years and 5 months pinch a non-parole play of six years, backdated to his April 2022 arrest.

Chief Justice Michael Grant besides ordered that nan once-respected world beryllium banned from owning aliases having connected his spot mammal-type animals for nan word of his earthy life.

Before delivering nan sentence, Justice Grant warned nan nationalist assemblage that he would person to picture specifications of Britton's offences that included 'grotesque cruelty toward animals' and told nan British-born academic: 'Your depravity falls extracurricular immoderate mean quality conception'.

Members of nan nationalist assemblage sobbed and gasped arsenic nan specifications of Britton's extended and convulsive offending, resulting successful nan deaths of 39 dogs, including 9 puppies, were publication out.

Britton stood successful nan dock wearing a achromatic suit pinch grey garment and did not visibly respond to Justice Grant's sentencing remarks.

Britton began offending successful 2014, sexually abusing his ain pet dogs - Swiss Shepherds Ursa and Bolt - successful a concealed 'torture room' constructed connected his agrarian spot successful McMinns Lagoon adjacent nan metropolis of Darwin. 

He continued until his apprehension successful April 2022 aft a video of his vile acts, which he had shared online, was provided to Australia's Northern Territory animal use authorities. 

An anonymous net personification noticed a female dog successful 1 of his horrific videos was wearing an orangish City of Darwin leash pinch nan slogan, 'great pets commencement pinch you'.

That tip-off enabled investigators to way down wherever nan canine was adopted from - and by whom. 

The agreed facts stated Britton extensively filmed his offending successful his alleged 'torture room' and shared videos online nether pseudonyms while encouraging others to perpetrate akin offences and offering 'how to' advice.

'Your sheer and unalloyed pleasance is sickeningly evident from nan recorded material,' Justice Grant said.

As good arsenic torturing his dogs that he had raised, Britton bought sought canines featured successful Gumtree Australia 'free to bully home' adverts from unsuspecting owners successful nan Darwin region.

Britton was besides sentenced for possessing and transmitting 'the worst category' of kid intersexual maltreatment material. 

The British national was a salient crocodile master and a elder interrogator astatine Charles Darwin University - a station which afforded him nan opportunity to big nan likes of world-famous broadcaster and biologist David Attenborough while he filmed nan BBC's Life successful Cold Blood docuseries.

None of his offending is alleged to person been against nan reptiles.

The zoologist kept his twisted double life and depraved fantasies from his woman Erin for years. 

Erin, a wildlife ranger who erstwhile met Prince Harry and helped him drawback a crocodile, has reportedly changed her surname since learning of her husband's crimes.

During Britton's trial, prosecutors told nan tribunal he maintained respective accounts connected nan Telegram messaging app - 1 which he utilized to prosecute pinch 'like-minded people', and different which was utilized to disseminate images and recordings of nan abuse.

'Using these applications, nan offender discussed his ''kill count'',' nan charismatic told nan court. His relationship had 114 threads wherever he described really he acquired nan pets and really he abused them. 

The tribunal learned really Britton erstwhile told a Telegram personification of his convulsive compulsions: 'I had repressed it. In nan past fewer years I fto it retired again, and now I can't stop. I don't want to.'

Britton originated different dogs from Gumtree Australia from unsuspecting owners successful nan Darwin region.

The tribunal antecedently heard he built rapport pinch nan owners and negotiated taking custody of their pets, galore of whom reluctantly gave their pets distant owed to recreation aliases activity commitments. 

He would show pet owners connected Gumtree that his aged canine had died of crab and he wanted a 'new family member' successful bid to make them person pity connected him and waste them their dog, nan tribunal heard.

If nan pet owners reached retired and asked Britton really their aged canine was doing, he would rotation a 'false narrative' to opportunity they were patient and moreover nonstop them aged photos - erstwhile successful reality their pet was already dead.

In 1 scenario, Britton sent a connection to nan owners of a large brown canine named Wolfe to reassure them nan animal was 'settling successful well'. The charismatic told nan tribunal that canine Wolfe had already been 'sexually exploited, tortured and killed'.

Following his apprehension successful 2022, constabulary seized 44 items including computers, mobile telephones, cameras, outer difficult drives, devices and weapons during a ambush of his home. They besides recovered 15 kid maltreatment worldly files connected his laptop.

But Britton's condemnation was met pinch outrage by animal authorities activists successful Australia.

Emma Hurst, who is an MP for nan Animal Justice Party successful New South Wales, slammed nan condemnation arsenic 'pathetically weak'.

'These were horrific acts of animal cruelty,' Ms Hurst said.

'There is simply a well-researched nexus betwixt unit towards animals and unit towards people. 

'This man is simply a threat to different animals and nan community. I americium relieved to perceive his condemnation includes clip down bars - that's wherever a man for illustration this belongs – but it is not agelong enough.'

Britton's barrister, who has asked not to beryllium named because she has been taxable to individual maltreatment and threats for representing him, had based on a life prohibition connected each animal ownership was an 'extreme measure'.

She based on Britton should beryllium allowed to ain aliases unrecorded pinch immoderate creatures different than 'mammals' and nan prohibition should not past a life because of nan 'reasonable prospects of rehabilitation'.

But she besides publication nan tribunal an apology that she claimed had been penned by her client.

'I return afloat work for nan demeaning crimes that I perpetrated connected dogs,' Britton said.

'I profoundly regret nan symptom and trauma that I caused to guiltless animals and result to my family, friends and members of nan organization that I affected, I fto you each down and I'm genuinely sorry.

'I now admit that I've been fighting a uncommon paraphilic upset for overmuch of my life and that shame and fearfulness prevented maine from seeking nan due thief I needed.'

Britton said 'no magnitude of words tin convey really sorry and ashamed I am, nor undo what I did' but he was 'determined to beryllium I americium amended than this'.

'I will activity semipermanent curen and find a way towards redemption,' his missive read.

'Please springiness my family nan abstraction they merit to heal, they were not alert aliases progressive successful immoderate way.'

Paraphilia is defined arsenic having persistent and recurrent intersexual interests, urges, fantasies, aliases behaviours of marked strength involving objects, activities, aliases moreover situations that are atypical successful nature.