The ringleader of an international network of monkey torturers has been jailed for more than three years – but will be freed after serving just one year.

Bartosz Poklek, 30 and currently lives in Bexley Heath, led an online 'cult' dedicated to torturing and killing the animals for entertainment, and distributed 'horrific' cruelty videos which sold for up to £375 a time.

Among his cruelty and torture, he wrote scripts for how the monkeys should be mutilated, dismembered and tortured, and directed the way they would be killed, including them being clubbed to death with a hammer while wearing a nappy.

Poklek is just the latest man to be sentenced in connection with the network.