Friday 3 October 2008

Sex

Today in the advocates room there was a discussion around recent cases, which include -
a. Iranian asylum seeker who claimed asylum on basis of necrophilia, which started a discussion which included;
b. A morgue worker who had pleaded guilty to having sex with corpse, apparently he was finally convicted on the evidence of - a. witness, b. DNA evidence (I bet that was fun getting the sample);
c. Man who had sex with a horse;
d. Man who had sex with a dog (his dog) twice, he was found guilty on the basis that he had recorded the event for posterity on his mobile phone;
e. Family who had sex with each other to celebrate daughters 16th birthday (I bet that was a day to remember)

and finally the mother of the family in e. when questioned by the Judge stated that she no longer had sex with her own sons, of this she was confident assertive and definite. She elaborated
"I no longer do it with my boys, I now do it with the dog, its quicker and less trouble"

4 comments:

Radagast said...

Ah, the jet-setting life of a defence counsel! We should wonder at the beauty and variety of society (not that there's anything particularly social about shagging your family pet)!

Matt

Radagast said...

Nor, in my opinion, beautiful, I hasten to add!

Matt

Charles said...

I suppose it depends on the pet


grim it certainly is, I am in Essex, which has unfortunate memories of a family case where my client was Category A Sex Offender, with a teenage son who was also a Category A Sex Offender, who could not understand the reluctance of the Court to allow him near his (new born) child.
They were not persuaded by his contention that he would not abuse his own flesh and blood (his 9 year step daughter obviously did not count) and that in any event babies were not his type...

Radagast said...

Well, so little is known about that kind of habitual activity... The assumption is that if a person's done that sort of thing once, then the pattern is set, and they're going to do it, again, which isn't necessarily true. Anyway, in the current climate, where paedophiles are more reviled than Bin Laden, no court is going to take that kind of chance. The perceived proximity of the risk, I suppose.

Matt

PS I used to live in Chadwell Heath.