A SEX offender who filmed himself raping a dog and sent the video to a friend on WhatApp has walked free from court.
Neil Gareth Bird, 45, also filmed himself having sex with a teenager, searched online for extreme porn and downloaded indecent images of children, York Crown Court heard.
Andrew Finlay, prosecuting, said that once Bird had engaged in the sexual act with the defenceless pup, he sent the footage onto someone he knew through Whatsapp.
But Katherine Robinson, defending, said Bird sent the message during the course of an argument, and it was not intended to provide sexual gratification to him or the recipient.
She said: "Whilst the defendant accepts he made that video and it is sexual in nature, his intention was to send it in the course of an argument. It wasn't for sexual gratification of him or anyone else."
Bird, from York, pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing extreme pornography and four of having indecent images of children.
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In total, he was found to have 38 extreme images and five indecent images featuring children aged seven to 10, as well as the video of the teenager.
Mr Finlay said the teenager and Bird had met on an internet dating website and the boy had lied about his age.
He had initially claimed he was 18 when he was younger and had later given his true age. The pair had met physically and had consensual sex.
Police had then found a film of the two of them engaging in sex when they searched Bird's tablet and mobile phone.
Bird was given a 20-month prison sentence suspended for two years on the condition that he completed 20 days' rehabilitative activities.
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Deputy circuit judge Tim Clayson declined a prosecution application for Bird to be subject to a sexual harm prevention order enabling police to monitor his use of the internet.
He said he didn't think it would be appropriate and the rehabilitative activities would help stop Bird commit more sexual offences.
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