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Old 07-05-2024, 05:47 PM #5
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LeGresley will be sentenced at crown court on 7 June.
BBC Eye identified her as a participant in a group run by a US man called Mike Macartney, a former motorcycle gang member who served time in prison and went by the screen name "Torture King".

LeGresley, who at the time was living with her parents in the Midlands, was among the most active participants in the group and was made a group moderator by Macartney.
She would often message privately with Macartney, who pleaded guilty this month to animal abuse charges in the US and is facing up to five years in prison.
Kevin Lacks-Kelly, the head of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit, said LeGresley played a key and active role in the global torture network.
He said she was much more than a spectator, that she raised funds, archived videos to share between groups and acted as an admin in the groups welcoming new members.
"I've been investigating wild crime for 22 years and it sickens me to say that this is unequivocally the worst case I have ever investigated or overseen," he said.
Sarah Kite, a co-founder of the animal charity Action for Primates who investigated the groups, said LeGresley "unquestionably derived enjoyment from watching helpless infant monkeys in terror and pain fighting for their lives".
"The depth of the depravity and perversion... in facilitating the horrific and gratuitous torture and killing of vulnerable baby monkeys was sickening, something I had never seen previously," she said.
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