Describing offences committed by Orme, the court heard a USB stick was seized by police.

It had been used to save five videos of baby monkeys being tortured.

There were 1,252 cached images of monkey torture on her computer, the court heard.

Orme's husband is sitting in the public gallery with his head in his hands.

The court heard about the extent of content shared by the group.

There were 61 folders with approximately 3,000 images and videos.

On Facebook, Orme wrote: "My monkey hatred seems to be back.

"Shame they don't do a diploma in monkey hatred."

Orme expressed a preference for mental torture, the court was told.

She said she wanted to torture them and heal them, before torturing them again.

The court has heard how Le Gresley wanted to torture the baby macaques and juveniles for as long as possible before they died.

She said as they posted videos: "I love psych torment too. I love non-lethal injuries like this."

A catalogue of torture methods was read to the court, including attacks with scissors.

Again, most of the injuries are too graphic to be reported.

Le Gresley has told the court: "It's upsetting. It's hard to hear."

The judge replied it was the same for "most of us".

The defendant asked for a glass of water as she cried, while co-defendant Orme has been rocking in the dock.

The sentencing paused for a minute because the two defendants were in distress but later resumed.

The court heard how the group ran a poll to vote on proposed methods of torture.

In one case, Le Gresley celebrated that her method was chosen, prosecutors said.

She had ordered a whipround for one member who had funded videos, writing: "She's done so much... delivering one of the best videos we've seen for a long time."

Le Gresley is sobbing in the dock as the court hears how she planned to create videos showing severe injuries to monkeys.

She expressed a desire for a baby monkey to undergo severe trauma, and also for one monkey to watch another animal die.

She was described as planning one injury after another and was quoted: "If it doesn't suffer first, it seems like a waste."

Prosecutors have outlined the efforts Le Gresley went to to get a video dated 15 December 2021.

In a message in a social media group she said: "I got us a guy who wants to crowdfund a monkey for videos.

"The keeper is in Indonesia. He buys the monkey for $100. He will do just about anything to it that we want."

Le Gresley went on to say "I don't want five years in jail", the court was told.

Footage was being circulated on social media with the focus on the US initially, the court has been told, but it became apparent in June 2021 that other groups were operating.

In those groups, people could buy monkeys so they could be abused and killed, the court heard.

Sarah Kite, from Action for Primates, was sent chatlogs of the group run by an individual called Torture King.

One member, The Immolator, was Le Gresley. Another, who called herself Noelle, was Orme.

The court has heard from Ben Close, representing the prosecution, who said monkey charities sparked the investigations into these crimes.

He said Action for Primates played "a central role" and discovered people were paying to buy monkeys in Indonesia to be tortured.

Nicola Goodwin
Reporter, BBC Midlands Investigations

Both women are now in the dock.

Curiously, despite both living in Worcestershire, the pair had never met, and first saw each other in the first magistrates court hearing in Worcester in May.

Until their names were called, they didn't know what the other looked like.

They have only nodded to each other, they haven't conversed.

Members of the public have been allowed into the gallery in Court 1 at Worcester Crown Court.

They include animal rights protesters, but without their banners.

Defendant Holly Le Gresley, of Baldwin Road, Kidderminster, is in the dock and using a cane to walk. Her mother is also in the gallery.

The pair's role was exposed after a year-long investigation by BBC Eye into the network, which began life on YouTube, before moving to private groups on the messaging app Telegram.

BBC journalists went undercover in one of the main Telegram torture groups, where hundreds of people gathered to come up with extreme torture ideas and commission people in Indonesia and other Asian countries to carry them out.

The goal was to create bespoke videos which were then sold, sometimes for as little as £10.

On 19 August Adriana Orme, 56, from Upton Upon Severn, Worcestershire, pleaded guilty to publishing an obscene article and intentionally encouraging or assisting an offence - namely the causing of unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.

In relation to the charge of publishing an obscene article, Orme was accused of sending one image and 26 videos featuring monkey torture into chat groups, between 14 March 2022 and 16 June 2022.

On 7 May, Holly Le Gresley, 37, from Kidderminster, admitted uploading 22 images and 132 videos of monkeys being tortured to online chat groups.

She pleaded guilty to two charges - encouraging and assisting unnecessary suffering to a protected animal and publishing an obscene article.

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There has been a small demonstration outside Worcester Crown Court from people demanding the pair are given jail sentences.

They also held placards suggesting social media companies should do more to prevent networks such as this one.

Two women from Worcestershire are due to be sentenced at Worcester Crown Court this afternoon after admitting offences connected with a global online monkey-torture ring.

Long-tailed macaques were filmed being abused and in some cases killed, as part of the wider network that stretched from the US to Indonesia, a BBC Eye investigation revealed.

Adriana Orme, from Upton upon Severn, and Holly Le Gresley, from Kidderminister, were arrested and charged earlier this year.

We'll bring you live updates from the court.