British people are involved in an international animal cruelty network that electrocutes, drowns and starves cats for online torture-porn videos.
The network - which started in China and is believed to have thousands of members - shares and sells graphic videos and images of the animals being tortured and killed, the BBC reports.
It comes after a 16-year-old girl and 17-year-old boy from north-west London pleaded guilty to torturing and killing two kittens in a park.
Between May 2023 and May 2024, approximately one new video was uploaded online every 14 hours, according to the vigilante animal rights activist group Feline Guardians.
Feline Guardians says it has documented 24 animal abuse groups this year, the largest of which has more than 1,000 members.
