Revealed: The distraught wife of British zoologist Adam Britton, who filmed himself raping and torturing dogs, ‘has left him and fled Australia after changing her last name’ as neighbors insist she knew nothing of it knew his corrupt behavior
The distraught wife of British zoologist Adam Britton, who filmed himself raping, torturing and murdering dogs, has left him and fled the country, Web has learned.
Erin Britton has given up her husband’s last name and is believed to have gone on a six-month safari away from public places where she fears she could be affected by her 52-year-old husband’s dissolute personal life.
The National Geographic website suggests she will be joining an international wildlife expedition, but it appears she will be traveling under a new name.
A tradesman who worked on the couple’s exotic property told Web: “Will she come back?” That’s very doubtful. She has ended the marriage and is gone, although she will live in fear of being recognized wherever she lives given her husband’s shocking behavior.”
Amy Moore, a hotel worker in the small town of Humpty Doo, just a few miles from the Britton couple’s property, said she felt sorry for Erin, who knew nothing of her husband’s sadistic secret life of torturing, raping and killing dogs .
“It seems she just up and left him – and can you blame her when you hear about all the terrible things he confessed to in a previous court appearance?”
The distraught wife of British zoologist Adam Britton (pictured together), who filmed himself raping, torturing and murdering dogs, has left him and fled the country, Web has learned
Adam Britton (centre) with his wife Erin (left) and David Attenborough (right) during filming for a BBC documentary ‘Cold Blood’.
From Erin’s side, there are fond memories of feeding wildlife – mainly crocodiles – on the property where David Attenborough once visited to film sequences for the BBC Bafta-winning series Life in Cold Blood.
In the remote communities of Australia’s muggy Northern Territory, tough outback men and women shook their heads in disgust yesterday as the name Adam Britton dominated all conversations.
There was general agreement among local people that the zoologist with expertise in crocodiles should never be released from prison when he is sentenced in the coming weeks following his earlier guilty plea to animal abuse.
“You would have thought that, having been born and raised in this region, we would have seen and heard everything,” said self-confessed chatterbox Amy Moore, who lives in Humpty Doo – home to 4,313 residents and the origin of the name a mystery .
“It’s always been fun to live there or visit, but now we live just a few miles from a place that shocked the world.”
She was referring to McMinns Lagoon, where Britton lived with his wife Erin, who helped him maintain the exotic property.
“This man – even though I don’t like to call him a man – is a real idiot.”
Other locals said yesterday they did not believe Erin knew about her husband’s lavish secret life, in which he admitted torturing and killing animals, sexually abusing them and throwing their bodies around the property.
Britton not only tortured and abused his own pets Ursa and Bolt (pictured together), for whom he created an Instagram page, but also pet owners’ dogs that he lured into his trap via the online marketplace platform Gumtree Australia
Britton has told a court in Darwin that he was unable to stop his urges and that he wanted them to last.
“The word around these parts is that when Erin found out what her husband was planning to do, she fled – she just packed up her things and left,” Ms Moore said.
“She’s far away and has gone on a safari somewhere, but how she’ll ever get over it is anyone’s guess.”
“They largely kept to themselves unless they were doing business with film companies or conservationists like David Attenborough. “No one I spoke to remembers seeing them out and about, such as having a meal together at one of the local taverns.”
“We locals loved living here – it’s a really exotic place and now this person traveled all over the world from England a few years ago and spoiled all of our lives by doing what he did did to those poor animals just down the street from us.”