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'It's far more widespread than anyone knows': Inside the evil world of cat torture as thousands tune in to watch felines being brutalised for entertainment online

This week I watched kittens being tortured, decapitated, even burnt alive. In all my many decades as a journalist it was one of the most disturbing experiences I have endured.

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