POLICE officers found a DVD containing extreme pornographic material involving a dog in a sex offender’s car, a court heard.
Christopher O’Donovan, of Wyke Road, Weymouth was arrested by officers following a tip-off that he was in breach of his sexual harm prevention order on Monday, August 10, 2017.
Prosecuting, Richard Oakley, told Weymouth Magistrates’ Court that O’Donovan, aged 67, was previously placed on the sex offender’s register in February 2017 after being convicted of possession of illegal images at Bournemouth Crown Court.
He told the court: “Police officers attended his address after they receive a notification that he was involved in further offences.
“A search for O’Donovan was carried out and he was found at a Weymouth community centre and he was subsequently arrested.
“His car was located and searched by police officers. During their search, a DVD player was found.
“Inside the player, it was found that a DVD contained films of a female adult performing various sexual acts with a dog.
“He did not know the disc had extreme porn on it, but he accepted it was his disc as it had his handwriting on.”
Mr Oakley noted the DVD contained four films of an adult woman performing sexual acts with a dog.
Mr Oakley added there was a ‘lengthy period’ between O’Donovan’s arrest and charge, but he explained that this was due to analysing the DVD and other files found.
He said: “This is clearly very unfortunate and what I have been told is that there has been a substantial delay in getting the files.
“I think what it was, it wasn’t just the DVD, there were other items that needed to be sent off and analysed.”
He pleaded guilty to the charge of possession of extreme pornographic image or images portraying an act of intercourse with an animal.
O’Donovan was previously convicted of three counts of possession of indecent images of children, possession of extreme pornography of an animal as well as a prohibited image of a child at Bournemouth Crown Court on February 17, 2017.
He was placed on the Sex Offender’s Register indefinitely and issued an indefinite sexual harm prevention order as well as a three-year community order at Bournemouth Crown Court on February 17, 2017.
Due to the limited powers of Weymouth Magistrates’ Court, O’Donovan will be sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday, March 12. He was meanwhile released on unconditional bail.
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