{"id":143616,"date":"2024-08-20T17:03:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T00:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=143616"},"modified":"2024-08-20T17:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T00:03:12","slug":"uk-woman-pleads-guilty-to-role-in-global-monkey-torture-network-spanning-indonesia-other-asian-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/08\/20\/uk-woman-pleads-guilty-to-role-in-global-monkey-torture-network-spanning-indonesia-other-asian-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"UK woman pleads guilty to role in global monkey-torture network spanning Indonesia, other Asian countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy MalayMail<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn4.premiumread.com\/?url=https:\/\/malaymail.com\/malaymail\/uploads\/images\/2024\/08\/20\/229963.JPG&amp;w=800&amp;q=100&amp;f=jpg&amp;t=2\" alt=\"UK woman pleads guilty to role in global monkey-torture network spanning Indonesia, other Asian countries\" title=\"UK woman pleads guilty to role in global monkey-torture network spanning Indonesia, other Asian countries\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A file photograph shows a group of monkeys near a temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka. \u2014 Reuters pic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 20 \u2014 A British woman named Adriana Orme has pleaded guilty to her involvement in a global monkey torture network that was uncovered by a BBC investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the British news outlet, the network operated initially on YouTube before transitioning to private groups on Telegram, with Orme playing a significant role in the group that funded the abuse and killing of baby monkeys for pleasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Inspector Kevin Lacks-Kelly, head of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit, called the case the most heinous he has encountered in his 22 years as an officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve seen the worst that humanity can bring, The animals in this case have been unnecessarily tortured, there&#8217;s no excuse for it,\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Orme was charged with publishing obscene material and for encouraging or assisting in causing unnecessary suffering to protected animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the BBC\u2019s investigation, the abuse was carried out by individuals in Indonesia and other Asian countries, who would capture monkeys from the wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the network from around the world would discuss and vote on various methods of torture, paying for their preferred options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court learned that she had sent one image and 26 videos depicting monkey torture to chat groups between March and June 2022. Additionally, she made a \u00a310 (RM56) payment to view a video of a baby macaque being tortured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another woman, Holly Le Gresley, 37, from Kidderminster, UK, was also implicated, and eventually admitted to uploading 22 images and 132 videos of monkey torture in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Orme and Le Gresley are scheduled to be sentenced at Worcester Crown Court on October 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy MalayMail A file photograph shows a group of monkeys near a temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka. \u2014 Reuters pic KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 20 \u2014 A British woman named Adriana Orme has pleaded guilty to her involvement in a global monkey torture network that was uncovered by a BBC investigation. According to the British news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}