A MAN was found with extreme pornographic images of animals on his work laptop.

Joseph Mortiboy, 41, was employed by Welsh Water when he typed in a banned internet search on his work’s computer leading to an internal investigation.

His employers were shocked when they found an image of Mortiboy carrying out a sexual act with a horse on his work’s laptop.

He lost his job before he pleaded guilty at Hereford Magistrates Court to possessing an extreme pornographic image.

Mortiboy, who formerly lived in Kingsthorne but now lives in Blackburn, was arrested on February 10 while getting out of his car at St Barnabas Church in Hereford.

Adrian Jones, prosecuting, said: “A police investigation found 19 extreme images on his company laptop.

“A search was carried out of his home and a Dell Computer was found with two extreme images.

“A hard-drive with one extreme image and two extreme videos was also found.

“Mortiboy admitted that a few months before he had touched a horse’s genitals with his hand.

“He said that he normally looked at mainly pornographic images.”

Police later recovered a USB from the seat of his car containing 12 extreme images and 11 extreme videos.

The extreme videos were all related to bestiality.

Mortiboy, the court heard, told police the images must have transferred themselves from his Blackberry mobile phone onto the company laptop – which had belonged to Welsh Water.

“A number of these images were of himself carrying out sexual acts with an animal,” said Mr Jones.

Hereford Magistrates heard that Mortiboy could not explain where his interest in animals had come from but it had developed over a number of years.

Lucy Cash, defending, said Mortiboy had lost so much as a result of the offences coming to light.

The offences had occurred in the context of the breakdown of his marriage.

 

She added that Mortiboy did not belong to any specialist websites and had essentially found the images on Google.

“Off his own back he has tried to address his uses and has said that he will never be so stupid as to get involved in anything like this again,” she said.

“He is now full-time employed again and has built up a support network.”

She said he was ‘incredibly remorseful’ and ‘ashamed’ of his actions.

Magistrates said although they considered the offence passed the custody threshold, they would instead impose a community order for two years.

The order will include 50 rehabilitation activity requirement days.

Mortiboy was also fined £500 and ordered to pay £185 costs.