A British woman has pleaded guilty to being part of a global monkey torture network.
Holly LeGresley, 37, from Kidderminster, was a participant in a private online group that was paying people in Indonesia to kill and torture baby monkeys on video.
The convictions follow a year-long investigation by the BBC Eye team.
They went undercover in the groups to expose the existence of the sadistic global network.
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LeGresley pleaded guilty at Worcester Magistrates' Court on Tuesday to charges of consuming, causing and facilitating the torture of baby monkeys over the internet.
She was part of a group on the messaging app Telegram that brainstormed, crowdfunded and then commissioned videos of monkeys being tortured by people in Indonesia.
The group was used to share ideas for custom-made torture videos such as setting live monkeys on fire, injuring them with tools and even putting one in a blender.
Under the username "The Immolator" LeGresley once ran a poll for members of the group on which method of torture should be inflected upon an infant monkey.
LeGresley will be sentenced in crown court on 7 June.
Kevin Lacks-Kelly, the head of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit, said LeGresley played a key and active role in the global torture network.
Another woman, Adriana Orme, 55, also appeared at the magistrates' court on Tuesday in connection with the network.
She chose not to enter a plea at this stage to charges of publishing an obscene article and for causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
Her next appearance in court will be 5 June.
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Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-68968718