AN YSTRAD Meurig man will be sentenced later at Crown Court next month after admitting possessing dozens of extreme pornographic images of intercourse with animals.

Dean Harper, of Sisial y Pin, Ffair Rhos, appeared before Aberystwyth Magistrates’ Court on 18 May.

The 65-year-old had pleaded guilty at a hearing on 27 April to possessing a total of 61 extreme pornographic images portraying an act of intercourse or oral sex with a dead or alive animal.

The images “portrayed in an explicit and realistic way, a person performing an act of intercourse with a live animal which was grossly offensive.”

Following a pre-sentence report, magistrates decided to send the case to Swansea Crown Court for sentencing on 1 June.