A man had sex with a Shetland pony after he was seen leading it and another pony into a dark wooded area at the end of a paddock, a court heard.

Alan Barnfield, described as a ‘sexual deviant’, was found by police ‘sweating profusely and smelling strongly of horses’ after being called by worried residents.

In his rucksack they found several cans of Lynx deodorant, a length of white electrical cable, a handheld water sprayer, a cloth, a metal dog chain and two bottles of Lucozade.

A court heard that DNA from one of the two horses, called Sky, was found on a sample taken from Barfield.

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