Man jailed for posting monkey torture videos on Facebook site

Peter Stanley, a 43-year-old from Liverpool who has been jailed for 20 months for posting "horrific" videos of baby monkeys being tortured for entertainment. Picture: Merseyside Police/PA Wire

A man has been jailed for 20 months for posting “horrific” videos of baby monkeys being tortured for entertainment.

Peter Stanley posted three videos showing the torture of baby long-tailed macaque monkeys on a private Facebook site, since shut down, linked to the intentional harm of animals for entertainment.