Twisted zoologist films himself raping puppies and says 'I love it, I live for it'

The wife of twisted British zoologist, Adam Britton, has called her husband a "monster" following the revelation of his horrific crimes against animals. The 49-year-old, who worked alongside David Attenborough, was jailed last year for the torture and rape of animals he owned, which he disturbingly referred to as "f*** toys".

He recorded himself sexually abusing, torturing and killing dozens of dogs and was imprisoned after confessing to 56 offences related to the torture and sexual exploitation of over 42 animals on his rural property. The crocodile researcher at Charles Darwin University, Australia, was admitted to numerous animal abuse charges, including raping puppies, which occurred inside a shipping container used as a "torture room". Now, his wife, Erin Britton, has broken her two-year silence about the moment she uncovered the sickening reasons behind her husband's arrest.

The Yorkshire-born zoologist was sentenced to 10 years and five months with a six-year non-parole period in August 2024. After the details of his horrific acts came to light, Britton's wife, Erin, left the family home.

"I cannot comprehend still, how somebody can be so depraved, so evil," she said in an interview with 60 Minutes Australia. "He's destroyed my entire life."

The programme sees Erin return to the marital home - where the couple housed crocodiles and operated a wildlife consultancy firm - on the outskirts of Darwin for the first time since her husband's arrest, where she tells the presenter: "It's going to be hard for me to go back because there was so much I loved about that property. [...] Everything in my world changed."

Officers discovered dog remains stored in a refrigerator alongside filming equipment that Britton had used to record himself committing the vile acts. He began his criminal activities in 2014, sexually abusing his own pet dogs - Swiss Shepherds Ursa and Bolt - in the "torture room" on his rural property in McMinns Lagoon. In communications with his depraved followers on the dark web, he confessed: "I love to hurt dogs, I live for it. I can't stop myself hurting dogs."

He continued his horrendous acts until his arrest in April 2022 after a video, which he had shared online, was provided to Australia's Northern Territory animal welfare authorities.

Erin said she was away when Britton was detained: "I didn't find out until I spoke to his lawyer the following morning... she told me that there were crimes of animal cruelty and bestiality [...] my brain was like denial, no. Hearing that information is the most awful thing you could ever hear about your partner. It was so shocking and I felt sick.

"I couldn't speak, I couldn't think. My brain was having trouble processing and understanding how such a horrible thing could even exist in the world. And then to find out that this was relating to him."

She branded her husband a "psychopath [...] hiding in plain sight".

The pair had supplied footage of crocodiles and once welcomed David Attenborough, who was recording a segment for the BBC's BAFTA-winning programme, Life in Cold Blood.