In short:
British backpacker Bradley Gavin Knoesen, 31, has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges in Western Australia.
Knoesen, who is in Australia on a working holiday visa, drowned a kelpie before beating it to death.
What’s next?
Knoelsen has avoided an immediate jail term but is likely to be deported from Australia.
I’m not an expert on people who are capable of committing crimes like this, but I know that masking is a big part of why people are able to get away with seeming ‘normal’.
Alcohol does not drive people to do this. To suggest that it’s somehow capable of completely obliterating a mask that’s been kept up 100% up until that point is also unrealistic, at least in my eyes. Now if there were other drugs, maybe something like PCP - there’s a discussion to be had there.
Drugs could be it. I’m also thinking a manic episode, where you don’t know what’s real but are consumed by one irrational thought that made sense at the time