Paul Lovell is accused of trying to have sex with a sheep in the woods next to Tottenham Hotspur’s training ground (Picture: Central News)

The trial of an IT worker accused of committing sex acts with a cow and sheep near Tottenham Hotspur’s training ground was briefly halted when a judge reprimanded jury members for laughing.

Sniggering could be heard during the trial of Paul Lovell, who allegedly tried to have sex with a sheep near the Premier League side’s state-of-the-art facility in Enfield, north London, on September 4.

The 61-year-old has been charged with outraging public decency, including ‘fellatio with a cow’.

‘I well understand that there are aspects of it [this case] that are unusual and amusing,’ Judge James Patrick told Wood Green crown court.




‘If you do find the case particularly funny, if you can try to get over your laughter over lunch that would be great.’

Judge tells jury off for laughing as they hear how a man tried to bugger a sheep after he could not get a cow to felate him. — CourtNewsUK (@CourtNewsUK) January 28, 2014

A couple who were enjoying a picnic 250 yards away from the alleged incident told police they saw Lovell ‘laying on the floor, taking his shorts off’ before committing the sexual acts.

Prosecutor Robert Hutchinson told the court: ‘In this case the defendant with his penis tried to put it into or up next to, as if to put it into, the mouth of a cow.

‘And he repeated this more than once with different cows.

‘He did not successfully penetrate the mouth of a cow with his penis and he then moved to another part of the field and tried his luck with some sheep.

‘The witnesses saw him trying to encourage – using gestures- the sheep towards his groin area and say that he was basically trying to entice them to lick or suck on his genitals.’

Court erupts in laughter after judge accidentally suggested a witness demonstrate what a sheep botherer did to unfortunate animals #Enfield — CourtNewsUK (@CourtNewsUK) January 28, 2014

Laughter erupted in court again after the judge unwittingly suggested a witness demonstrate what Lovell was doing to the sheep.

The judge later reassured the witness: ‘You will be glad we don’t have a sheep in court.’

Lovell denies one charge of trying to commit sexual acts with animals in a public place.

The trial continues.