Bestiality…

Andrew Holland was charged with possession of "extreme pornography" under section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act after being sent an unsolicited video, which allegedly showed the above sexual act, as a joke by a friend.

The law forbids possession of 'extreme' pornography that shows necrophilia or bestiality, threatens life or could cause serious injury to a person's 'anus, breasts or genitals'.

Extreme images are defined as those that are 'grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character'.

At court, prosecutors realised they had a problem when they heard the "tiger" in the video saying, "That's ggggreat!"

It appears that throughout the initial investigation and the six months that Holland had been on bail, neither the police nor the Crown Prosecution Service had bothered to watch the video with the sound on, believing that the tiger in the video was real.

Holland's solicitors at Hodge Jones & Allen have written to the director of public prosecutions, Alison Saunders, to ask for a review of the way in which the relevant law is enforced to save other innocent people from facing the same public ridicule as their client.

It has been estimated that between 1800 and 2009, 373,000 people have died as a result of attacks by tigers. One would expect that if the above video was real then there would have been at least one more person added to that list.

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