Cats electrocuted, drowned and starved cats in online torture groups, BBC finds

The BBC found that an international network that shares cats and puppy Cat’s online videos was members of the UK.

The network is thought to have thousands of members who share, share and sell videos of graphic images and videos of cats.

In a group, in a encrypted messaging application, the BBC found evidence that British members accepted users for injury from RSPCA.

The BBC investigation comes after two young people acknowledged in a park in Ruislip in North West London tortured and killed two kittens. They will be sentenced to Monday.

The following report includes graphic content and explanations of animal persecution.

16 -year -old girl and boy who cannot be named for legal reasons, The puppy was found guilty after being cut and. Knives, Flowtorches and scissors were also found at the scene.

It is understood that the police are now looking at possible connections to a network of cat torturers who are now attacking, publishing and selling on encrypted messaging applications.

These groups started in China, but detected members of the world, including BBC News, England.

The scale of the network was documented by animal rights activists Feline Guardians.

The group says that a new video showing the torture and execution of a kitten or cat between May 2023 and May 2024, he says.

He says that 24 groups with more than 1,000 members are active. It is believed that the most active torturer has filmed the torture and murder of more than 200 cats.

Chat talks in a group seen by BBC include what seems to be the UK -based accounts that discuss how to reach the abuse of cats.

A member discussed how to accept puppy cats from RSPCA and issued application forms. Another article shared an ad for the kitten for sale in England and reported that they wanted to “torture them very badly”.

Lara is volunteer with Feline Guardians. We agreed not to use the full name for the fear of retaliation.

He said: “Every day I feel my heart broken, there is no day I don’t feel my heart broken.”

He spent a secret time in the forums and said there was no limit to the pain that the torturers are ready to give.

He describes this as “depths of evil”.

Videos and photos seen by BBC are graphic and extremely disturbing.

These include images of drowning and electric cats. If a video is not given, a kitten in a cage predicts how long a cat will survive.

Group members seem to want to suffer as much as possible. In online conversations, torturers explain how they use electricalization to revive a cat to extend pain.

New members are encouraged to be injured and broadcast videos to access a wider network.

The BBC saw evidence showing that children participated in these groups. One member said: “I am 10 years old and I love torture cats.”

In September 2023, the network even encouraged the “100 cat killing” competition, while the members were encouraged to see how fast the group could torture and kill 100 cats.

The videos depicting the terrible torture of cats became viral in China in 2023.

Wang Chaoyi, who was responsible for two extremely graphics videos, was detained by Chinese authorities for 15 days and had to publish a “Repentance letter”.

However, the images developed a cult and others began to make similar content for China and Western social media, and the groups gained thousands of views before they developed in encrypted messaging practices.

Even a website describes itself as a place for the “cat lover community” and wants the audience “send your job”.

Users can only access if they offer evidence of their cat torture.

“Little Winnie” is a well -known name used in the Cat torture community because it has a profile picture that mocked Chinese leader Xi Jinping with a image of Winnie the Pooh.

Accounts with this name and profile picture are defined as an administrator in a series of forums.

A activist from Feline Guardians contacted one of these little Winnie accounts and drew the man behind it to an online relationship.

“I had to be friends and then I had to have this friendship with him.” He said.

He communicated for a few weeks and infiltrated the network.

“It was just an endless shift of torture videos, one after another,” he said. “I felt ‘I can’t watch it’. Although I sent him a message, I can’t watch it. I had to close my brain some kind.”

Finally, he convinced the man behind the account to make a video call. From this call, the group described a 27 -year -old man living in the Japanese capital Tokyo.

When the BBC contacted, the man said that he categorically rejected these activities categorically.

From Feline Guardians, Lara said that law enforcement officers and governments should cope with groups and said, “It will only continue to expand and worse.”

Feline Guardans demanded that Beijing officials to do more, organized demonstrations other than the Chinese Embassy in London.

“In China, there is no law that stops it in China. This means that abusers and torturers can effectively do what they want and live these very sadistic fantasies without any results. These videos are loaded and this is a global problem, because this means that everyone has access to these videos.” He said.

Ian Briggs, the head of RSPCA’s special operational unit, told the BBC to say: “To treat animals in this way is absolutely unacceptable and has no place in a modern society of gentle, compassionate animal lovers.”

All Party Parliamentary Group President Johanna Baxter deputy, these groups, “especially among young men is a deeply worried trend,” he said.

“Animal abuse usually acts as a passage and makes it easier to rationalize and commit future violence.”