There has been widespread reporting of the prison sentence handed down to Peter Stanley, who is the first British person to be jailed for the online posting of monkey torture videos. Stanley, who belonged to several groups on Facebook, posted videos depicting baby monkeys brutalised in extreme and sadistic ways for online ‘entertainment’, including genital mutilation. The videos were accompanied by sickening comments posted by Stanley, making light of the monkeys’ obvious suffering and distress.
Jailing Stanley, Judge Ian Harris at Liverpool Crown Court said: "These offences are utterly repellent and have no place in a civilised society." Chief Inspector Kevin Lacks-Kelly, head of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit said "These crimes are committed behind a veil of secrecy by so called 'communities' and I hope the sentencing shows there is no place to hide for animal abusers.”
Action for Primates alerted the UK police to the activities of Peter Stanley as part of our joint investigative work with Lady Freethinker to expose those people involved in despicable online monkey torture groups.
Two other people in the UK, Holly LeGresly and Adriana Orme, are due to be sentenced in October for their role in paying for and ordering the horrific torture of baby monkeys in Indonesia to make videos to circulate in their Telegram group.
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