Australian zoologist Adam Corden Britton, an expert on crocodiles, pleaded guilty before the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, the highest court in that jurisdiction, to raping, torturing and killing dozens of dogs, as confirmed by judicial sources to Efe on Tuesday. In total, the specialist faces 56 charges for animal abuse, as well as accessing and transmitting sexual material.
According to tax reports, Britton raped his two pets Ursa and Bolt since at least 2014 in his rural home in the Australian city of Darwin. Those were his first victims, because the crocodile expert repeated this practice for years with other animals, which he killed and dismembered in many cases.
Between November 17, 2020 and April 22, 2022, the day of his arrest, the academic “intentionally” killed at least 39 of the 42 dogs, including puppies, that he purchased through an internet portal after torturing them and violate them, the court documents added.
The 51-year-old academic had a system designed to avoid raising suspicions. He used to send photos to the owners who, for reasons of travel or work, had sold him their pets, assuring them that they were fine, before torturing, raping and killing them in a huge container full of cameras and recording devices that he had inside his property.
Britton also shared in an encrypted Telegram group with people with inclinations towards animal abuse and sexual activities with animals, better known as zoophilia.
After searching his property, the agents corroborated that the suspect had computers, phones, cameras, external hard drives, weapons and sex toys inside his rural property in Darwin, where remains of injured animals, corpses of decomposing puppies were also found. and dog heads.
The accused will appear again before the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in Darwin starting on September 13, when deliberations about his sentence begin in a phase that can last for several days, the judicial source told Efe.
