#MostEvil | Vicki Holland, born c. 1983, of Wordsworth Road, Newport NP19 8HU – subjected her pet monkey to months of sadistic abuse.
Mother-of-four Holland admitted three offences under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 in relation to a marmoset monkey named Milly.
The court was also told Holland failed to provide a suitable environment for Milly and did not feed her a suitable diet.
Marmosets are native to tropical areas of South America, and when kept in this country their owners must meet the animals’ “very particular set of needs”, Aled Watkins, prosecuting, said.
But he said Holland did not meet these needs – she provided no UVB lighting for the monkey, her cage was “devoid of decor needed for environmental enrichment”, and she fed her “inappropriate food” including processed ham, kebabs and burgers.
Milly’s abuse came to light after Gwent Police raided Holland’s property on drugs charges. Officers seized items including the defendant’s mobile phone, and while investigating the device they found 22 “very disturbing” videos involving the marmoset.
Holland lied to police she had sold the marmoset a week earlier but Milly was found and signed over to the RSPCA. She was then transferred to specialist primate experts at Monkey World in Dorset for ongoing care.
Three of the videos found on Holland’s phone were shown to the court, including one showing the marmoset in a “very distressed state”, cowering inside a toilet bowl. Holland could be heard on the video saying “I need the toilet” and “shall I flush it?”
The toilet was then flushed, and Holland called the animal a “fucking twat”.
Another video heard Holland offering Milly some bagged cocaine, saying: “Want some coke? Lick my fingers.”
A third video showed Holland’s pet dog in close proximity to the monkey. Mr Watkins said there was other evidence of the dog chasing the marmoset, which had “free rein” of the house in a “dangerous environment” around knives and electrical outlets.
Mr Watkins said Holland had “shown total disregard to the basic care and needs” of her pet.
“This is deliberate infliction, this isn’t neglect,” he told magistrates.
In May 2021, Holland and partner Russell Cox, 43, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply after £1,600 of cocaine was found hidden inside Kinder eggs in her home.
Cox, of Cwmbran, was jailed for 30 months and Holland got a suspended 20-month term.
Team Leader of Small Monkeys, who rehabilitated the abused pet, Steph Sawyer, said: “Rehabilitating Milly has been a long process. I have never seen such a terrified marmoset.
“Milly cringed away and hid from every person she encountered, any loud noise or sudden movement would sent her into a screaming alarm call and looking for somewhere to hide.
“She wouldn’t move or eat in front of us to begin with; only freeze and hide.
“Even now that she is settled and happy with a male, the sight of new people can still cause her to panic. The mental scarring from her abuse will always be with her.”
Dr Alison Cronin, director of Monkey World, said: “Milly’s case was tragic and heart breaking.
“She spent her life living in fear and was subjected to abuse and cruelty that is the worst that I have seen in more than 30 years of rescuing primates.
“Milly will never fully recover from her abuse and will be psychologically damaged for the rest of her life but the key to saving Milly was companionship of her own kind.
“With Moon at her side, she has been able to relax and enjoy her life, finally.”
RSPCA inspector and exotics officer Sophie Daniels added: “I was immediately and gravely concerned about the welfare of this marmoset when I saw these disturbing videos.
“Videos from the defendant’s phone showed Holland offering the marmoset cocaine, while another showed the clearly terrified marmoset down a toilet bowl.
“Holland was shouting, swearing, laughing and at one point in the clip, the toilet is flushed, showing the petrified animal struggling to cling onto the side of the bowl.”
“An independent vet soon confirmed that the marmoset was suffering unnecessarily as a result of the way she had been treated.”
The RSPCA has said it was “totally opposed” to the keeping of any primate as a pet, because it is so hard to meet their complex needs in a domestic environment.
Sentencing: 12-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months; 120 hours of unpaid work; £568 in costs. Disqualified from owning any animals indefinitely, with a minimum duration of the order of five years.
Mother Of 4.
I Do Hope Social Services are keeping a close eye on those Children.
Especially after being Prosecuted For Possessing and Dealing in A Class A Drug.
I hope she Cares For Her Children better than she Cared for that poor Little Animal.
She obviously hasn’t got a clue with Animals. It doesn’t say what happened to her Dog. Marmosets need their own Primate Company and should not be kept in houses. As they also need the Correct Set Up.
Cunt
Children should be removed from dangerous household.
She’s changed her Facebook to ‘Vic Holl’
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087089497678
Hard to tell because she’s dyed her hair and ditched the filter-on-filter-on-filters from her original account, but the teeth and tattoos match.