Man admits to filming sex with his pet dog

Published on Wednesday 9 December 2009 09:24

AN EDINBURGH man has admitted filming himself having sex with his pet dog.

John Kerr, 30, appeared from custody at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday where he admitted taking the mobile phone footage as he sexually abused the Staffordshire Terrier.

Fiscal depute Aidan Higgins said a friend of Kerr's had found a phone behind his couch and looked at it to find out who it belonged to. When he saw two clips of the accused with his pet he got in contact with the previous owner of the dog who had given it to Kerr in April this year.

They then contacted police and the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The court heard the dog was taken away on Monday to be examined by a vet but appeared not to have been injured.

Mr Higgins said: "He told police that those video clips were the only occasions in which he had an unnatural connection with the dog.

"But he said he could not really say why it was he made the recordings – it was only for himself."

The fiscal depute added that efforts were being made to re-home the pet.

Kerr admitted having an unnatural connection with a dog and allowing it to lick his private parts between 1 April and 22 November this year at a house in Kirk Street, Edinburgh.

Sheriff Fiona Reith, QC, deferred sentence on Kerr, of Parliament Street, for background reports. He was released on bail in the meantime.