 A British crocodile expert has pleaded guilty to raping puppies and torturing more than 40 dogs at his animal shelter. Adam Britton, 51, who grew up in West Yorkshire before moving to Australia, admitted to luring pet owners to give him custody of their beloved canines before abusing them. At the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, he also admitted to sexually abusing his own Swiss Shepherd pets, Ursa and Bolt, for almost a decade. The academic at Charles Darwin University in northern Australia once hosted broadcaster David Attenborough at his home. Britton would even film himself torturing the defenceless animals in what he called his 'torture room' – a shipping container fitted with recording equipment – until most of them died before posting the sick material online, the court heard. Britton, a leading zoologist who has worked with the BBC and National Geographic on productions, pleaded guilty to 56 counts of animal cruelty in court yesterday. He also pleaded guilty to four counts of accessing and transmitting child abuse material. The details of Britton's crimes are so horrific and 'grotesque' that Chief Justice Michael Grant urged the public and security staff to leave the courtroom before the prosecutors outlined the facts of the case in a rare move. He said 'These facts contain material that can only be described as grotesque and perverse acts of cruelty which is confronting and distressing and which in my assessment have the potential to cause nervous shock.' Much of the details surrounding Britton's offending are also too gruesome to be published. Prosecutors told the court how Britton, who hosted Attenborough while the broadcaster filmed part of the BBC's Life in Cold Blood docuseries at his property, has a 'sadistic sexual interest' in animals and in particular dogs since at least 2014. Britton's wife Erin, a wildlife ranger who met Prince Harry and helped him catch a saltwater){kind=link}
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A British crocodile expert has pleaded guilty to raping puppies and torturing more than 40 dogs at his animal shelter.
Adam Britton, 51, who grew up in West Yorkshire before moving to Australia, admitted to luring pet owners to give him custody of their beloved canines before abusing them.
At the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, he also admitted to sexually abusing his own Swiss Shepherd pets, Ursa and Bolt, for almost a decade.
The academic at Charles Darwin University in northern Australia once hosted broadcaster David Attenborough at his home.