2 Women Involved in Global Monkey Torture Network Jailed

Two women in the UK have been jailed for their involvement in a “sadistic” global network in which people paid money to individuals in Indonesia to torture and kill baby long-tailed macaques. On Wednesday, Judge James Burbidge, KC, jailed Adriana Orme, 56, for 15 months and Holly LeGresley, 37, for two years for sharing hundreds of obscene images and videos of animal cruelty, and for paying money to commission acts of abuse against the animals. Their arrests had followed a year-long investigation by the BBC and a police inquiry, assisted by UK-based charity Action for Primates. The documentary, “The Monkey Haters,” aired in June 2023 revealed that hundreds of people across the UK, Australia, the United States, and other countries were paying people in Indonesia—sometimes thousands of pounds—to torture and kill small monkeys on camera....