A woman has pleaded guilty to being involved in a global monkey torturing ring.

Adriana Orme, 56, from Upton Upon Severn, Worcestershire, was charged with publishing an obscene article and intentionally encouraging or assisting an offence, namely causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.

Worcester Crown Court heard that she played a major role in an online group that paid for baby monkeys to be taken from their mothers, then tortured, and killed, for pleasure.

A BBC investigation found the torture ring began life on YouTube, before moving to private groups on the messaging app Telegram.

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BBC journalists went undercover in one of the main Telegram torture groups, where hundreds of people gathered to come up with extreme torture ideas and commission people in Indonesia and other Asian countries to carry them out.

The goal was to create bespoke films in which baby long-tailed macaque monkeys were abused, tortured and sometimes then killed on film.

In relation to the charge of publishing an obscene article, Orme was accused of sending one image and 26 videos featuring monkey torture into chat groups, between 14 March 2022 and 16 June 2022.

The charge of encouraging an offence involved a £10 by Orme to a PayPal account.

Orme is the second woman from the area to admit her part in the gang, alongside 37-year-old Holly Le Gresley, from Kidderminster, who admitted uploading 22 images and 132 videos of monkeys being tortured to online chat groups in May.

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