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Rex Martinich

'Grotesque' depravity to dogs lands croc expert in jail

Animal advocates demonstrated outside court, demanding the death penalty for Adam Britton. (Rex Martinich/AAP PHOTOS)

A judge who has jailed a former zoologist for more than 10 years over "deviant" cruelty to dogs said he could not imagine anyone committing more serious torture of animals.

Adam Robert Corden Britton was sentenced in Darwin Supreme Court on Thursday having previously pleaded guilty to 56 offences related to the torture and sexually exploitation of more than 42 dogs on his rural property in the Northern Territory.

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