A popular BBC TV zoologist caged for raping, torturing and murdering dogs is being called a “psychopath” by his ex-wife, who was oblivious to his twisted desires.
Dr. Adam Britton even begged his former wife to send books on dogs to him after he was jailed.
Erin Britton told the Aussie TV news magazine 60 Minutes she had been out of town for business when cops raided their Darwin, Australia home. The revelations were shocking as she had “no idea why or what the crimes were.”
A lawyer set her straight, informing her that the demented doctor stood accused of raping and torturing 42 dogs. Britton killed at least 39 of the animals.
Britton was sentenced to 10 years in prison last month for his horrific crimes. He was also convicted of possessing child pornography.
“She told me that there were crimes of animal cruelty and, you know, obviously there was bestiality,” she told 60 Minutes. “And when she told me bestiality my brain was, like, denial.”
She added: “Hearing that information is the most awful thing you could ever hear about your partner. It was so shocking … I felt sick I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t think. He is a psychopath … I cannot comprehend still how someone could be so depraved, so evil.”
It was a dramatic fall from grace for Adam Britton.
The TV vet had worked closely with the legendary nature filmmaker, Sir David Attenborough, on a series of BBC documentaries.
His former wife — now divorced from the British-born zoologist — said he continues trying to contact her. On his wish list? Books on dogs, their breeding history, their domestication and behaviour.
“He’s writing about this as if he can, sort of, continue his fantasies in his mind, and it makes me really angry,” Erin Britton said, claiming the “disturbing” request “messed with her head”.
She added: “He doesn’t have any consciousness of what is right or wrong, I feel like I’ve lost so much of my life and I feel like I’ve been completely duped. He’s just destroyed my entire life.”
Most recently, Adam Britton was a senior research associate at Charles Darwin University. He allegedly began his abuse in 2014.
His crusade of cruelty and deprivation only ended when he was arrested in 2022. A tipster sent detectives a video of the vile vet committing the abuse that he had posted online.
Online among like-minded maniacs, he used the handles Monster and Cerberus.
Det. Paul Cronin said of the tip: “With that email, was a 15-minute video of a naked Caucasian man in the bush doing indescribable things to dogs.”
But the video provided a clue. The female dog was wearing an orange lead.
“And that lead had ‘Great pets start with you’ written across it. That happens to be the Darwin City Council slogan for pets,” Cronin said.
Investigators later found dog remains in the freezer at the vet’s home as well as trestle tables and camera tripods set up as a studio where he filmed his crimes. He also owned a pet alligator.
“So he was most likely feeding those [the dead dogs] to the crocodile,” his wife said.
In addition, Britton waxed with fellow sickos on encrypted messaging services about bestiality, animal abuse, the acquisition of dogs, and methods for disposing of their bodies.
A forensic search of his laptop also revealed 15 files of child sexual abuse material. Included were toddlers being subjected to horrifying sexual abuse.
“How is that possible that somebody can possibly, that is frightening. Just, I still feel sick. Knowing that somebody was capable of things like that.”
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