Man sentenced for possessing animal sex images

A man who admitted possessing images of people having sex with animals has been sentenced to a community order.

Peter Clements, 62, from The Wharf in Braunston, Daventry, was given the three-year order at Northampton Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.

He had pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing images of people having sex with a dog and a horse.

Clements will also be subject to a sexual offences prevention order for five years.

He had been charged with possessing an image of a person performing an act of intercourse with a horse, and with possessing an image of a person performing an act of intercourse with a dog.