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A man charged with possessing extreme images and films involving sex acts between people and dogs has been bailed on condition that he does not have any unsupervised contact with animals.

Defendant Colin Edward Shaw, 50, admitted three charges of possessing extreme images while living in a caravan at Willow Park at Gladstone Way, Mancot.

Shaw, now of Abbot’s Walk in Holywell , was arrested after the material was found at the caravan when the park owners had arranged for it to be cleared out.

At Flintshire magistrates’ court at Mold today he was bailed pending an all options pre-sentence report in the magistrates’ court next month.

In the meantime magistrates renewed the bail granted by the police which has two conditions – not to have any unsupervised contact with animals, and to allow police to inspect any device capable of accessing the Internet.

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Prosecutor Justin Espie said that there was no suggestion of any indecent images of children.

In April, police were called to Willow Park by the park management.

Earlier that day, they had been cleaning out a caravan where the defendant had lived and they came across pornographic images and images depicting bestiality.

The defendant had not paid his site fees and had signed over the caravan to the park.

Police seized a large amount of DVDs and VHS videos.

Interviewed, he admitted what he had done and said that he had been overcome by curiosity.

He believed that he had down loaded some 500 images.

It emerged that there were 322 images and five movies – and four DVDs which involved extreme images.

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A sexual harm prevention order would be sought by the prosecution, the prosecutor said.

Phillip Lloyd Jones, defending, said that his client had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.

When he left the caravan he left the items behind because he had forgotten about them.

It happened some eight or nine years ago after his father died and when his mother was ill.

He was extremely depressed and with low self esteem.

“Sadly, he viewed this material,” Mr Lloyd Jones explained.

He had deleted some of them but they had not been deleted in their entirety.

Police attended at his home and he fully co-operated.

The defendant was a single man, his mother had since died, and he suffered ill-health.

Mr Lloyd Jones said that his client suffered severe depression, stress and anxiety together with chronic back ache and blackouts. He received sickness benefits.

The intervention of the probation service would assist, he said.