By Charlotte Karp In Mcminns Lagoon For Daily Mail Australia
17:04 29 Sep 2023, up to date 17:04 29 Sep 2023
EXCLUSIVE
WARNING: Graphic content material
A disgraced crocodile knowledgeable filmed himself raping, torturing and murdering pet dogs and uploaded them to the web as a result of he wished to create the world’s finest ‘shock video’.
Adam Britton, 52, sourced dogs on Gumtree Australia to molest and kill in bushland alongside the Arnhem Highway, at his sprawling home at McMinns Lagoon, and at a neighbouring property in Darwin’s south between 2020 and 2022.
When he was home, he would both kill the animals within the yard or in an old transport container the place he saved his filming gear.
The container – or the ‘torture room’, as he known as it – might be seen at this time contained in the fence on the entrance of the property, near the street and any passers by.
His cameras, intercourse toys, weapons, and canine corpses have been lengthy gone, however what remained was dirty mattresses, damaged mattress frames, an empty bottle of Cointreau, mugs, carpet, enjoying playing cards, and varied mugs strewn in regards to the flooring.
The torture room was primarily hidden in plain sight, however not even his wife Erin Britton (nee O’Brien) knew about his wicked behaviour – the couple largely lived aside, a supply advised Daily Mail Australia.
She had no concept in anyway that her husband was actively making an attempt to create a reputation for himself by making vile content material on the home they shared for greater than 20 years, and posting it on-line.
Sources say he wished to turn out to be one thing of a celeb within the subject when he posted one video, known as ‘1B***h9Pups’, to an abuse web site on March 22, 2022.
One supply mentioned: ‘He deliberately wished it to be the most-known shock video ever.’
He posted a number of movies on-line over the two-year interval, however ‘1B***h9Pups’ was his undoing – it was so violent and obscene that livid web customers scoured by way of the twisted movie to seek out clues as to who he was.
Eventually, they noticed an orange City of Darwin leash and reported him to the police. His home was raided a month later, in April 2022, and he has been in custody ever since.
The three-bedroom, three-hectare property the place he and Erin invited movie crews, TV stations, radio hosts, animal consultants, and buddies is now fully deserted.
The crocodile pen the place they saved their unique pets – together with Smaug, the film star crocodile – is empty, and the 2 Swiss Shepherd pets who he additionally abused, Ursa and Bolt, are nowhere to be seen.
There are padlocks on the fence, together with an eerie signal from Darwin City Council that learn ‘a canine on these premises has been declared a harmful canine’.
At McMinns Lagoon, almost everybody has no less than one canine – to listen to one relentlessly barking, and even crying, would not appear too misplaced, and that is provided that you can hear it above the deafening sound of cicadas.
Temperatures through the day hardly ever drop beneath 35C so folks keep indoors, in entrance of followers or below loud air-con models.
Properties are additionally unfold huge aside – most of Britton’s neighbours had by no means spoken to him through the 20-odd years he lived there, and could not keep in mind his face when prompted with a photograph.
It was solely when key particulars of the case have been talked about they sprung to life and mentioned, ‘Oh you imply the canine f***er!’
‘Didn’t know him,’ one neighbour mentioned. ‘Was he a neighborhood? Must have been a fairly sick form of man.’
Another lady mentioned she had lived on her property, only some doorways down from Britton, because the mid-Nineteen Seventies and barely knew anybody on the road, and infrequently went to the native outlets.
Even on the native outlets, the sight of Britton’s face and the point out of his title solely elicited puzzled expressions.
‘People like him do not go to the outlets,’ one store proprietor mentioned.
But in some methods, it wasn’t shocking that locals did not see him or his spouse across the space.
Erin usually labored as a ranger about three hours south of Darwin and, when she wasn’t doing that, she was off on a months-long worldwide zoology expeditions. She nonetheless has expeditions deliberate at this time, and has apparently cut ties with her husband and dropped his surname.
Britton additionally went on these expeditions, ceaselessly visiting locations like Antarctica.
In truth, paperwork tendered in Darwin’s Supreme Court recommend he made his vile movies at home, earlier than occurring worldwide journeys and sending the movies to like-minded folks utilizing Telegram.
A lot of the home movies have been despatched from Antarctica, most have been despatched from the NT, and some have been despatched from Qld and NSW.
There have been a number of situations the place, based on courtroom paperwork, he would despatched a video of himself inflicting torture on a canine someday, after which he’d add a photograph of whales within the Antarctic on Instagram the subsequent.
The final photograph he posted social media was king penguins in South Georgia Island on February 18, 2022, throughout an arctic and Antarctic expedition – two months earlier than his arrest.
During that journey alone, he despatched seven movies and 28 pictures of canine rape, torture and homicide to a bunch on Telegram, below the pseudonym Cerberus.
His account had 114 threads the place he described how he acquired the pets and the way he abused them.
He despatched greater than 100 movies and pictures to different customers between 2020 and 2022.
Prosecutors advised a courtroom on Monday he had a Telegram account which was used to interact with ‘like-minded folks’, and one other which was used to disseminate photos and recordings of the abuse.
‘Using these functions, the offender mentioned his ‘kill depend’,’ prosecutor Marty Aust mentioned.
Britton sourced different canines off Gumtree Australia from unsuspecting house owners within the Darwin area.
The courtroom heard he constructed rapport with the house owners and negotiated taking custody of their pets, a lot of whom reluctantly gave their pets away on account of journey or work commitments.
In one state of affairs, Britton despatched a message to the house owners of a big brown canine to reassure them the animal was ‘settling in properly’.
‘Wolfe was relaxed and consuming properly and having fun with her new home,’ the message learn.
The prosecutor advised the courtroom that they had already been ‘sexually exploited, tortured and killed’.
Last 12 months, police seized 44 objects together with computer systems, cellular telephones, cameras, exterior laborious drives, instruments and weapons throughout a raid of his home.
They additionally discovered 15 little one abuse materials information on his laptop computer.
After pleading responsible to all costs on Monday, Chief Justice Michael Grant warned the gallery the info of the offending detailed ‘acts that might solely be described as grotesque cruelty that are each confronting and distressing’.
‘Which in my evaluation have the potential to trigger nervous shock or another hostile psychological response to an individual uncovered to these particulars,’ he mentioned.
Britton was charged final 12 months, however his title was suppressed by the courts to make sure media consideration wouldn’t bias a jury towards him.
The order was lifted after his pleaded responsible on Monday.
His matter is ready to return to courtroom on December 13 for sentencing submissions.
