By Candace Sutton for Daily Mail Australia
08:08 27 Sep 2023, up to date 08:37 27 Sep 2023
- Adam Britton raped and killed dogs in ‘torture room’
- Criminal psychologist says he may have escalated to serial killer
A number one legal psychologist claims crocodile skilled turned canine rapist and killer Adam Britton may have turn out to be a serial killer.
Tim Watson-Munro, a famend forensic advisor who has testified at a few of Australia’s greatest legal trials, stated Britton’s cruelty to animals was a giant think about his potential to cross over to murdering people.
Dr Watson-Munro additionally stated Britton, 52, who sexually abused and killed dogs together with his personal pets in a secret ‘torture room’, could have a tough time in a Darwin jail and is unlikely to rehabilitate.
‘I have not examined him, however had he not been caught, he might effectively have escalated… moved on to killing people,’ Dr Watson-Munro informed Daily Mail Australia.
‘Cruelty to animals, killing animals, lighting fires, arson and mattress wetting might level to serial killing later in life.
‘In normal phrases any person who’s able to committing this kind of crime over a protracted time period is clearly effectively organised, with no thought dysfunction or chaotic considering.’
While the wicked former zoologist is but to be sentenced, Dr Watson-Munro stated a ‘paraphilic’ like Britton would resist therapy in jail.
Britton has admitted that he ‘could not cease, and did not need to cease’ raping and killing dogs.
‘The purpose is that they love what they do, they’re excited by it. It’s typically the case they’ve considered one of two paraphilias – paedophilia, bestiality and, arguably, sadism that are all pushed by sexual want, twisted and perverted although it could be.
‘(It’s) sexual pleasure and it is all about management. Animals do not have a voice, you possibly can choose up strays.
‘He had a complete arrange concerned in darkish net exercise, and it is horrifying to assume there’s like-minded folks on the market in abundance – however that is a part of the joys, sharing the guilt, sharing the joys.’
Britton pleaded responsible on Monday in Darwin Supreme Court to killing a minimum of 39 dogs and raping puppies inside a delivery container on his property at McMinns Lagoon in outer suburban Darwin.
He filmed his abuse of animals he referred to as ‘f*** toys’, which he sourced on Gumtree after sexually abusing his pet Swiss Shepherd dogs, Ursa and Bolt, over 9 years.
He confessed to 37 counts of animal cruelty inflicting critical hurt or dying, 10 counts of raping or trying to rape a canine, 4 counts of possessing or transmitting baby abuse materials, animal cruelty, breaching obligation of care to Bolt and Ursa, and utilizing a carriage service in an offensive means.
Britton, who made documentaries about his work in wildlife administration of crocodiles, posted movies below subjects like ‘zoo-sadism’ on encrypted messaging service Telegram below two accounts, ‘Monster’ and ‘Cerberus’.
While he awaits sentencing, Britton is believed to be housed inside Darwin Correctional Centre the place the inmate inhabitants will take a dim view of somebody who harms pet dogs.
Dr Watson-Munro, together with a former inmate on the jail, stated fellow prisoners would deal with Britton.
The legal psychologist put it bluntly: ‘People who screw dogs do not do effectively in jail. Some folks in all probability view cruelty to animals as extra heinous than cruelty to folks.’
Ex-bank robber turned TikTok star, Russell Manser, did a stretch in old Darwin jail in 1990 and stated inmates would seemingly pelt Britton with faeces, and bash him within the yard in what he may anticipate to be a ‘brutal’ expertise.
He can be considered on the bottom jail rung together with paedophiles, necrophiliacs, and individuals who offended in opposition to the aged.
‘He’s going to be humiliated each day – he’ll have faeces, old milk and eggs, boiling water with jam so it sticks tossed at him,’ Manser stated.
‘They’ll spit on him, stand over him, something he is acquired they’re going to take. And it is coming into the moist season, it’s going to be suffocating in his cell and in crawl the lizards and snakes.
‘He’ll have a fully horrible time.’
A former Northern Territory Corrections senior jail officer informed Daily Mail Australia that Darwin jail – considered one of Australia’s most fashionable amenities – had 80 per cent Indigenous inmates, however white prisoners would trigger Britton essentially the most bother.
He stated the jail had protecting custody, ‘but it surely’s a little bit extra versatile than within the Eastern states’, nonetheless Britton ‘will discover it very troublesome in custody’.
Britton, as soon as a revered educational who labored as a Senior Research Associate at Charles Darwin University, had arrange alerts on Gumtree for when a brand new canine or puppy was listed on the market within the Darwin space.
Between November 2020 and April, 2022, he sourced 42 dogs of various breeds and ages after building rapport with homeowners ‘lots of whom needed to reluctantly give their pets away as a consequence of journey or work commitments’, earlier than torturing and killing them.
Online he chatted with different different sick subscribers about bestiality, animal abuse, the right way to supply dogs, and the right way to eliminate their our bodies.
Police discovered 15 baby abuse materials recordsdata on Britton’s laptop computer, together with wicked materials associated to toddlers.
He faces a a most of 5 years for every of 37 counts of animal cruelty inflicting critical hurt or dying, and as much as 10 years for every offence of possessing baby abuse materials.
