A Scottish mother-of-two involved in a global monkey torture network has been jailed for more than two years.
Natalie Herron, 39, from Airdrie in North Lanarkshire, joined online chat groups which encouraged torture of macaques by offenders based in Indonesia.
Airdrie Sheriff Court heard how she became a group administrator for the network, which was exposed by a BBC investigation, and shared hundreds of images and videos of the abuse.
The group paid for baby long-tailed macaques to be taken from their mothers in Indonesia before they were tortured and killed.
The acts of cruelty included crucifixion, machete attacks and one video that showed a baby monkey being dipped in boiling oil.
The court heard how Herron had made contact online with Michael Macartney, the US-based ringleader of the network who used the alias "The Torture King".
