A man accused of possessing extreme porn featuring animals, has been banned from using the internet by magistrates.

Phillip Heard faces 19 charges of having images of a grossly offensive, disgusting or obscene character.

It is alleged he possessed images which explicitly and realistically portrayed an act which resulted, or was likely to result in serious injury to a person's breasts and genitals.

The charges also claims that he had images of a person performing an act of intercourse with a dog and a horse.

The allegations date back to August 28, and September 16, 2008. [But it wasn't against the law then!]

City magistrates committed Heard to Swansea Crown Court where he will appear next month.

Heard was given bail on the condition that he doesn't access the internet or buy any item from which you can use the internet.

Endangered species

Despite the odd absurd anomaly, such as an attempt to prosecute for a depiction of a woman having sex with a cartoon tiger, the UK government’s “extreme pornography” laws have not have proved to be the threat to free expression.

Critics of the extreme porn law, which took effect a year ago this week, may be feeling a sense of ironic let-down on its anniversary, as legislation supposedly passed to protect the innocent from extreme sadists appears to have turned, all too rapidly, into the “Safeguarding Vulnerable Animals Act”.

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A former zoo worker convicted of attempting to have sex with a female rottweiler named Tara after a drunken party has been banned from owning dogs.

Judge John Rogers QC, sitting at Mold Crown Court, also placed him on a 12 month community order under which he must carry out 100 hours unpaid work.

Thomas Edwards, who at the time worked in catering at Chester Zoo, denied a charge of attempting to penetrate a living animal during an incident on August 30 last year. He said he went out into the back yard to have a smoke and to urinate – and simply stroked one of two dogs which he did not know were there until he went out into the yard.

Edwards admitted seven charges of possessing animal pornography on his computer.