Cambridgeshire paedophile had sex with pet dog – Grace Ong prosecutes for the Crown
Shaun Bolingbroke, 32, filmed himself having sex with his bulldog and took an ‘extreme pornographic image’ of the act, which were recovered from his phone. He pleaded guilty to intercourse with the animal and possessing extreme images of the act.
He had earlier denied rape of a child under 13 but was convicted in May. On Tuesday 23rd July 2024 he was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
His defence counsel, Charles Myatt, said: “He really does take full responsibility for what he has done. He turned up to court today knowing that he is going to receive a significant sentence and simply wishes to receive that.”
His Honour Judge Grey noted at the outset that Bolingbroke had no previous convictions and said he would take him as a “man of prior good character”.
The Judge continued, “Your actions were depraved. Your continued denial of sexual offending and your denial of obvious sexual attraction [to children].
You have, what appears to me, to be an evident inability to accept the enormity of what you did. It will be difficult if not impossible for the authorities working with you unless you start to tell the truth about what you did to them and indeed yourself.”
Bolingbroke was also placed on the Sex Offenders register and will be prohibited from working with children and other vulnerable groups.
