Brit women are jailed over sick global monkey torture ring where fiends pay to put animals in blenders for sexual kicks
TWO Brits have been jailed over their roles in a sick global monkey torture ring where fiends pay to put animals in blenders for sexual kicks.
Self-proclaimed animal lover Holly LeGresley, 37, led a secret life as a moderator in one of the global online groups.
Under the guise of The Immolator, which means someone who practises sacrifice, she published 22 images and 132 monkey torture videos to web creeps.
LeGresley even ran a sadistic poll on which torture method should be used on a baby monkey.
Her co-defendant Adriana Orme played a major role in one online group, which saw baby monkeys being taken from their mums, abused then killed.
Torture methods included attacks with scissors and making the aninmals cry "like a small child".
The pair have now been jailed for a total of over three years after they both admitted their involvement in the vile forums.
Worcester Crown Court was told the women had "not carried out monkey torture themselves";.
They are also both from Worcestershire but are not believed to have known each other and used online aliases.
Orme, 56, sent one image and 26 videos featuring monkey torture between March 14, 2022, and June 16, 2022.
She also made a payment of £10 to a PayPal account - the cost of seeing a baby macaque being tortured.
When her home was searched, cops found a USB stick containing five saved videos of monkeys being abused.
There were also 1,252 cached images of monkey torture on her computer.
LeGresley made a payment of £17.24 to a PayPal account to encourage cruelty.
They discovered hundreds were paying Indonesians to kill infant long-tailed macaques on video.
Torture methods include setting the animals on fire and putting them in blenders.
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Chief Inspector Kevin Lacks-Kelly, Head of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) said:
Macaques look the most similar to human babies, they even put them in nappies before they torture them - it's vile.
The low level stuff includes squirting them with water, hurting them with candle wax and restraining them with ties.
But the worst stuff includes putting them blenders or a technique called 'kebabing'.
I've seen videos of them cutting off fingers, limbs, causing sexual trauma, they've been set on fire and tortured in unimaginable ways.
I've been doing this for almost 22 years and this is the worst I've ever seen. It just shows the absolute worst of humanity.
They love the screams the look of frustration and pain on their faces. It's like you've got a kid tied up and you're abusing a kid, they're no different from those.
Three people including suspected ringleader Michael Macartney have been charged in the US.
The 50-year-old, who went by the alias "Torture King", ran several chat groups from around the world on encrypted messaging app Telegram.
The groups shared sick ideas for custom-made torture videos, which were then sent with payments to Indonesia.
He previously described joining his first Telegram monkey group, saying: "They had a poll set up. Do you want a hammer involved? Do you want pliers involved? Do you want a screwdriver?"
Macartney, from Virginia, said it was the "most grotesque thing I have ever seen".
At least 20 people have been investigated over the sick videos - including three women living in the UK who were arrested in 2022.
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Two people have been imprisoned in Indonesia, while David Christopher Noble and Nicole Devilbiss have been charged in the US.
LeGresley and Orme pleaded guilty to publishing an obscene article and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.