Ringleader of global monkey torture network jailed
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Bartosz Poklek, 30, from Bexley, London, was sentenced to three years and three months in prison at Woolwich Crown Court for running a large-scale international monkey torture ring between June 2023 and September 2025. He distributed videos of animal abuse sold for hundreds of pounds and wrote scripts for how animals should be harmed.
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