‘Unimaginable depravity’: Former BBC zoologist jailed for raping and torturing dogs

A crocodile expert and former BBC zoologist who filmed himself raping and torturing dogs has been jailed in Australia for more than 10 years for what a judge condemned as “unimaginable depravity”. Adam Robert Corden Britton was sentenced in the Darwin High Court on Thursday after pleading guilty to 56 offences relating to the torture and sexual exploitation of more than 42 dogs on his estate. The 53-year-old, who was born in West Yorkshire and earned a PhD in zoology from the University of Bristol before emigrating to Australia, was sentenced to 10 years and five months with a six-year non-parole period, backdated to his arrest in April 2022. Chief Justice Michael Grant also ordered that the once-respected academic be banned from owning or possessing any mammal-like animals on his estate for the rest of his natural life.