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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tristan Kirk

Mastermind behind ‘despicable’ monkey torture network that shared sadistic videos online jailed

Bartosz Poklek, the ringleader of an international network of ‘zoo sadists’ dedicated to torturing and killing monkeys for entertainment - (PA)

The man behind an international network of “zoo sadists” dedicated to torturing and killing monkeys for entertainment has been jailed for more than three years.

Bartosz Poklek, 30, distributed “horrific” cruelty videos which sold for up to 500 dollars at a time, wrote scripts for how the animals should be mutilated, dismembered, and tortured, and directed the way the monkeys would be killed, including them being clubbed to death with a hammer.

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