Adam Britton: Canine rapist who sexually abused and killed dozens of animals is jailed for 10 years

A crocodile skilled who raped and killed canines has been jailed for greater than 10 years over his ‘grotesque’ depravity.

Adam Robert Corden Britton was sentenced in Darwin Supreme Courtroom on Thursday having beforehand pleaded responsible to 56 offences associated to the torture and sexual exploitation of greater than 42 canines on his rural property.

Britton was sentenced to 10 years and 5 months with a non-parole interval of six years, backdated to his April 2022 arrest.

Chief Justice Michael Grant warned the general public gallery that he must describe Britton’s offending that included ‘grotesque cruelty towards animals’.

‘Your depravity falls outdoors any unusual human conception,’ Justice Grant advised Britton.

Justice Grant additionally ordered Britton be banned from proudly owning or having on his property mammal-type animals for the time period of his pure life. 

Britton’s barrister, who has requested to not be named as a result of she has been topic to private abuse and threats for representing him, had argued a lifetime ban on all animal possession was an ‘excessive measure’.

She argued Britton ought to be allowed to personal or reside with any creatures apart from ‘mammals’ and the ban mustn’t lifetime due to the ‘affordable prospects of rehabilitation’. 

Members of the general public gallery sobbed and gasped as the main points of Britton’s intensive and violent offending, ensuing within the deaths of 39 canines, together with 9 puppies, had been learn out.

Britton stood within the dock sporting a black swimsuit with gray shirt and didn’t visibly react to Justice Grant’s sentencing remarks.

Britton started offending in 2014 and continued till his arrest in April 2022 after a video of his vile acts, which he had shared on-line, was anonymously offered to Northern Territory animal welfare authorities. 

The agreed information acknowledged Britton extensively filmed his offending in his so-called ‘torture room’ and shared movies on-line underneath pseudonyms whereas encouraging others to commit related offences and providing ‘find out how to’ recommendation.

‘Your sheer and unalloyed pleasure is sickeningly evident from the recorded materials,’ Justice Grant mentioned.

In addition to torturing his canines that he had raised, Britton purchased sought canines featured in Gumtree Australia ‘free to good dwelling’ adverts from unsuspecting homeowners within the Darwin area.

Britton was additionally sentenced for possessing and transmitting ‘the worst class’ of kid sexual abuse materials. 

Britton was a distinguished NT crocodile skilled and a senior researcher at Charles Darwin College and in that capability he as soon as hosted world-famous broadcaster and biologist David Attenborough.

None of his offending was in opposition to the reptiles.

Earlier Britton’s barrister learn the court docket an apology penned by her shopper.

‘I take full duty for the demeaning crimes that I perpetrated on canines,’ Britton mentioned.

‘I deeply remorse the ache and trauma that I precipitated to harmless animals and consequently to my household, associates and members of the neighborhood that I affected, I allow you to all down and I am really sorry.

‘I now acknowledge that I have been preventing a uncommon paraphilic dysfunction for a lot of my life and that disgrace and concern prevented me from in search of the right assist I wanted.’

Britton mentioned ‘no quantity of phrases can convey how sorry and ashamed I’m, nor undo what I did’ however he was ‘decided to show I’m higher than this’. 

‘That I’ll search long run therapy and that I’ll discover a path in direction of redemption,’ he mentioned.

‘Please give my household the area they should heal, they weren’t conscious or concerned in any approach.’

Paraphilia is outlined as having persistent and recurrent sexual pursuits, urges, fantasies, or behaviors of marked depth involving objects, actions, and even conditions which might be atypical in nature.

Crown prosecutor Marty Aust argued for a lifetime ban on mammal possession saying Britton’s paraphilia ‘seems to be treatable however ever current’. 

‘We might submit that your honour can be glad that actually there’s an ever current threat on this case for this offender,’ he mentioned. 

Britton’s sentence was met with outrage by animal advocates.

Emma Hurst, an MP for the Animal Justice Get together in NSW, slammed the sentence as ‘pathetically weak’.

‘These had been horrific acts of animal cruelty,’ Ms Hurst mentioned.

‘There’s a well-researched hyperlink between violence in direction of animals and violence in direction of individuals. 

‘This man is a hazard to different animals and the neighborhood. I’m relieved to listen to his sentence contains time behind bars – that is the place a person like this belongs – however it’s not lengthy sufficient.’