04012025 S3E1

Adam Britton

Bringing a dark definition to the term: Animal Lover

Resources to the last drop:

Adam Britton sentenced for sex crimes involving dogs who were tortured (usatoday.com)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Britton
https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-victims-of-adam-britton-rapist-torturer-murderer-of-pet-dogs
Devoted Foster Father Brings Comfort to Terminally Ill Children (mymodernmet.com)

Today’s trigger warning is for animal rape, murder, and child sexual abuse material. If you are an animal lover, I highly suggest you find a comfort item, grab some water or tea and listen with caution. I’ll do my best to give trigger warnings before getting into the details of these crimes. No shame in skipping a head.

          Today we are covering the gruesome case of Adam Britton. Now many of you may recognize that name. For those who don’t Adam Britton was a famous reptile zoologist best known for his appearances on National Geographic, Discovery channel, and more. He was most noted for her crocodile expertise. But we aren’t even going to put him in the same category as the amazing Steve Irwin.

            I don’t know where to even begin so I guess we’ll just dive in.

            Adam Britton was born in 1971 Wakefield, West Yorkshire. During his time in grammar school he discovered a dark interest in zoology. By his own confession Adam was sadistically molesting horses by the age of 13. He said that even so young he realized that what he was doing was not normal, it was sick and wrong. He forced himself to suppress his urges and limit his fucked-up fantasies.

             Let’s just stop right there and focus on how fucked up that is. Horses are huge, dude. And kind of scary, to me, I don’t know about you, but I don’t want them eating me hair or nipping me. Those bastards will have chicken nugget sushi when they’re bored.

            Anyway, Britton went on to get his PhD in Zoology in 1996 and move on to Australia. There he would meet his future wife, and they would set up a consultancy dealing with crocodiles. A consultancy is a firm that offers their expertise on a certain subject. In their case, crocs. In addition to selling his advice, Britton worked for the BBC with David Attenborough as well as Nat Geo. He was also a featured expert on shows like Animal Planet and Animal Face-off.

            In 2014, his evil urges came rearing their ugly heads. He was no longer able to bury his ugly desire. Britton signed up for an account on Gumtree Australia, kind of like a Craigslist, I think. Correct me if I’m wrong if you’re listening from Australia 😉He would search for ads looking to rehome animals due to unfortunate circumstances. Like having to move to no pet housing or finances changed and can no longer afford a proper life. Sad cases, ya know. Most people aren’t rehoming their beloved pets because they want to. This sick prick took advantage of people at a low time in their life for his own disgusting pleasure. Hate him.

            He would tell the families that he would take good care of the animals for them. If they asked for updates he would send them old pictures and lies. He would say that they were thriving on the large property he had bought for just this purpose. And now, I didn’t see anything about him using aliases for his gumtree accounts, so I’m assuming he was adopting these pets as Adam Britton himself. Can you imagine having who you think is a kind animal lover just wanting to make a good home for displaced pets turn out to be a fucking monster? They all should have gotten compensation. I’m sure he could have fucking afforded it. Not that it changes what he’s done, but it’d be a nice fund for therapy. I know I’d need some after being a victim to that.

            Instead of loving these beautiful creatures, trigger warning for the gruesome stuff, you’ll want to skip ahead a few minutes if you can’t handle the truth. I’m kidding, I love ya, it’s sick and I don’t blame ya for not wanting to hear it. Just know that he is a sick son of a bitch and if the fiery brimstone of hel was real, it’d still be too cold for this fuck. Alright, skip to the loo my darling.

            Instead of loving this beautiful creatures, Britton would tape their muzzles closed, like a croc, so they could make noise as he raped and tortured them. Over the course of the next eight years, this demon would abduct, yeah not technically, but considering he procured his victims with false promises and lies, I’mma say he straight up kidnapped them, fight me. He would do this to 42 dogs, 39 of which would perish due to their injuries. He even molested his own dogs but didn’t torture them to the same degree.

            Not only was this depraved individual torturing animals for his own sick fun in a specially constructed “torture room” he built in a shipping container, but he was also filming it for others to “enjoy”

            Omfg, we could just stop here, we could. Why do we feel the need to listen to and share these dark moments of humanity? By the way, if you’re a skipper, we’re still in the nitty gritty, skip a head a few more minutes. S

            Britton was very careful to conceal his identity in his videos, leaving no clues to lead back to him. He didn’t want the fuzz, or what do you call them in Australia? The 5-0? The coppers? Leave us a comment with your Aussie slang on Instagram @dontchaknowpod.

            Anyway, he didn’t want the fuzz to ruin his fun, so he was careful. He even started a little side hustle consultancy advising would be snuffers on how to be like him and get away with murder. He’d share his depravity in dark web communities under different pseudonyms. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for this meddling anonymous tip.

            In what would be his last video, Britton filmed, skip a head lovely bout 2 minutes, in this video Britton filmed himself raping and torturing a mother dog and her 7 puppies. However, by the grace of whatever god you subscribe to, he forgot to remove her collar which had a City of Darwin with the slogan, “A great pet starts with you” this was seen by an anonymous person and forwarded to the NT (North Territory) Welfare Branch who then referred the matter to the police.

            About a month after Britton posted the video, on April 22, 2022 NT police and Australian Federal Police raided his McMinn’s Lagoon home in Darwin’s rural area. And let me just say, fucking BRAVO for that detective work from collar to collar (haha) they found this disgusting fuck and took him in.

            In the raid, they seized computers, mobile phones, camera, external hard drives, tools, weapons, dog paraphernalia, and sex toys. Time for hopscotch, skip skip, they even found severed dog limbs in the freezer, a puppy decomposing in a pond on the property, and a severed dog head on a neighboring property. Fucking god damn fucking hel, man. Pause. Just he’s trash. He disposed of the remains by feeding them to his crocs or just throwing them out in the wild.

            He was immediately arrested and held in jail while a case was brought against him. Sifting through the evidence the team would find his videos, and 15 files of Child sexual abuse material that he both sent and received, it was not produced by him, however, I can fathom that he wouldn’t be opposed to broadening his interests. Yuck, fuck, ugh gag.

            Following is some of the messages of Britton uncovered during the investigation and transcriptions of what he said to the court.

He would call the animals his fuck toys.

He repressed his sick urges for many years and could no longer do so and didn’t want to.

“I was sadistic as a child to animals, but I had repressed it. In the last few years I let it out again, and now I can’t stop. I don’t want to. :),” he wrote in one message tendered to the court.

“My own dogs are family and I have limits,” he explained in a Telegram chat entered into evidence.

“I only badly mistreat other dogs… I have no emotional bond to them, they are toys pure and simple. And [there are] plenty more where they came from.”

            This is coming from the man that locals told the media was quiet and seemed to have a passion for defending animals. It’s never the ones you suspect. He was charged with 37 counts of animal cruelty, 10 counts of raping or attempting to rape a dog, and four counts of possessing or transmitting child abuse material. Monday 25th Sept 2023, the Zoologist and CDU academic pleaded guilty in the Darwin Supreme Court.

            Chief Justice Michael Grant warned the gallery the facts of the offending detailed “acts that could only be described as grotesque cruelty which are both confronting and distressing”. “Which in my assessment have the potential to cause nervous shock or some other adverse psychological reaction to a person exposed to those details,” he said. 

            In a rare occurrence, the Chief Justice also excused the security officers and sheriffs from the courtroom while the facts were put on the record. Addressing the zoologist directly, one activist told Britton he was “right where you should be – locked up.”

“Once respected and esteemed, you’re now a disgrace to the scientific community,” said Natalie Carey. “No one will ever look at you with admiration again.”

            Britton was sentenced to 10 years and five moths with 24 months already served as of July 2023. He will eligible for parole in 2028 and has been banned from owning any mammals. But like, it was illegal before and he did it anyway, what the fuck is going to stop him now? He should be exiled to the desert for life. Monthly shipment of Flint, Mi water and nutraloaf. Maybe a bottle of sunscreen for Christmas.

            Anyway folks, that’s all she wrote. And damn I wish I hadn’t. That was rough. blessed by their presence.