First picture of sicko Scots mum jailed for helping to run horrific global monkey torture network
A SADISTIC Scots mum jailed for helping to run a horrific global monkey torture network can today be unmasked.
Natalie Herron, 39, and fellow sickos paid for thugs to inflict agonising deaths on baby macaques.
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Neighbours told of their revulsion at learning how the mum, 39, shared sickening videos of tiny monkeys being crucified, dipped in boiling oil and hacked with machetes.
We told how the monster, who also ran online votes on the animals' agonising death methods, was jailed for 27 months this week after admitting hoarding and sharing the harrowing footage.
But a source in her home town of Airdrie told The Scottish Sun: 'Natalie can never show her face here again. It won't end well for her if she does.
'She has always been one for the watching. But nobody could have imagined she could do anything so twisted. It's all that anyone here is talking about.
'She's a marked woman for what she did to those poor babies.'
We can also reveal fresh details of the disgusting messages Herron sent online to other sadists.
She spoke with undisguised glee about seeing the defenceless creatures having their faces melted with a blowtorch, being chopped up in a food blender and even having their private parts cut off.
The brute also said it was 'awesome' to watch a clip of a terrified macaque being wrapped up into a ball with cellotape.
Herron was caught after US cops took down the group's ringleader Michael McCartney, 51 — who called himself 'The Torture King'.
They paid for henchmen in Indonesia to steal young long-tailed macaques from their mothers then film their barbaric deaths.
Inside monkey torture ring where fiends pay for animals to be put in blenders for sexual kicks
Scots cops raided Herron's four-in-a-block flat in 2022 and found a phone with 1,084 pics and videos.
Officers also found 4,000 warped WhatsApp messages she sent.
In one, she moaned the screams of a dying monkey were 'making my ears bleed'.
Another said: 'I am shocked how easily the drill went through the skull, it was like butter.'
Herron discussed her preferences with other sickos, saying: 'Trying to find a video where they will kill the mum and the babies watch.
'Torch its whole face off until it's just skull and melting skin haha.
'Or watch them be blitzed in blenders and scalped, d**ks cut off, set alight. If only my family and friends knew they'd never look at me the same again lol.'
The fiend also organised a poll on what the group wanted to see next.
One suggested option was for a baby monkey to be sealed in a jar filled with biting fire ants.
Herron later gleefully told the others: 'We finally got our ants in a jar. Phenomenal!''
Neighbours told of their disgust at the fiend, who they used to see walking a pet dog.
At Herron's front door is an ornament of a squashed hedgehog with tyre tracks on its back.
One local said: 'Natalie was a weirdo. She wouldn't give you the time of day if she saw you outside. Most just thought she was rude.
'But many are now glad they never got to know her.
'The shame should follow her forever. She's a vile pig.'
A nearby shopkeeper claimed Herron's family will be distraught over the shocking revelations.
He said: 'Her parents are lovely people. Her dad was a nice guy and her mum worked for the NHS. Natalie was always a pain. But I don't understand what she'd get from all this. Her poor parents will be so ashamed.'
Our unmasking of Herron was backed by Sarah Kite, co-founder of Action for Primates.
She said: 'Her depravity in paying for and watching the sadistic and gratuitous torture and killing of baby monkeys is horrifying.
'It is in the public interest for people to know who she is.''
Nina Jackel, of animal rights group Lady Freethinker, added: 'Those who participate in these crimes must be held accountable to help deter future offenders.'
A BBC probe previously revealed the evil network.
Last November Holly Le Gresley, 37, was caged for two years and Adriana Orme, 56, for 15 months in Worcester after they admitted causing unnecessary suffering to animals.
Macartney was jailed for more than three years last October in Virginia, US.
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