Disgraces zoologist and crocodile expert Adam Britton will have to wait a few more months to find out how long he’ll spend behind bars for a depraved series of crimes against animals. The zoologist was hiding being anonymous online profiles, uploading pictures and videos of himself torturing, assault and murdering dozens of animals. he is facing over 40 charges from aggravated animal cruelty, bestiality and possessing and transmitting child abuse material.
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00:00 In public, Adam Britton marketed himself as a wildlife expert.
00:07 "They're opportunistic predators."
00:09 Regularly inviting TV cameras onto his rural Darwin property, showing off his pet crocodile.
00:14 "That's it, come here. Good boy."
00:17 But behind closed doors, in a shipping container just metres from the home he shared with his family,
00:22 the once respected zoologist had a secret double life.
00:26 He was living in a self-described torture room he used to abuse, rape and kill dozens of animals.
00:32 He regularly filmed his heinous crimes and uploaded the tapes online,
00:36 engaging in group chats with like-minded people.
00:40 "I love to hurt dogs. I wasn't sure at first, but now I live for it.
00:44 I can't stop myself hurting dogs," he wrote on one occasion.
00:48 On another, he said, "I was sadistic as a child to animals, but I had repressed it.
00:53 In the last few years, I let it out again, and now I can't stop. I don't want to."
00:58 The 52-year-old has pleaded guilty to almost 60 offences,
01:02 including 37 counts of aggravated animal cruelty,
01:06 eight of bestiality and four of possessing and transmitting child abuse material.
01:11 The details of what he would regularly do to the animals supposed to be in his care
01:16 and the images depicted in the child abuse material are so horrific, the ABC has chosen not to describe them.
01:23 Britain pleaded guilty late last year and was expected to be sentenced already,
01:28 but in a Supreme Court mention this morning, Chief Justice Michael Grant granted another adjournment
01:34 so further psychiatric evidence could be examined.
01:37 But he questioned how that information could possibly reduce Britain's moral culpability.
01:43 "A serial killer can't say, for example, 'My moral culpability is reduced because I suffer from psychopathy.'
01:50 I just can't see where the evidence is going here."
01:54 Britain has been behind bars since his arrest in 2022. He'll return to court in May.
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