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London, Jan 30 (ANI): A Brit man, who admitted that he had sex with a horse, has escaped jail.

26-year-old Derek Woods was caught after police rigged up a paddock with secret cameras and alarms 10 months after he first interfered with the horse called Amber, reports the Telegraph.

Police swooped on the stable in Devon after the alarm sounded and Woods was caught red handed.

Glasgow born Woods admitted one count of having sex with a horse in February this year and two charges of animal cruelty in December 2009 and August 2010 at Clyst St George near Exeter, Devon.

“Maggie Hunt keeps two horses at a rural location close to Clyst St George, Exeter,” prosecutor Gareth Evans told Exeter Crown Court.

“In early December 2009 Mrs Hunt noticed that somebody had been entering the stable and interfering with her horse. The first occasion was on the 18th December when she found a male asleep in the barn - he was drunk and did leave when asked.

“On the morning of 4th February 2010 Mrs Hunt noticed injuries to her horse and what appeared to be fluid on the thigh of the horse,” Evans said.

After another incident in July when the horse was injured, the Devon and Cornwall police force’s technical support unit installed a covert infa red camera and a wireless panic alarm usually used to domestic violence victims was used at the site, said Detective Constable Darren Campbell.

“On 9th August 2010 at around 11pm there was an alarm activation and police attended, they found Woods at the scene and he was arrested,” Campbell said.

During his detention his DNA was taken and submitted onto the database. Around 10 days later police had a match to the swab taken from the thigh of the horse. A second swab proved that Woods had had sex with the horse.

Jobless Woods, now living in Exeter, was sentenced yesterday at Exeter Crown Court.

His lawyer Niel Wraith said Woods was an ‘isolated’ man with a drink problem whereby he drank large quantities of Thunderbird - a mixture of Buckfast tonic wine, Martini and coke.

Judge Paul Darlow gave him a 24 months supervision order with an alcohol treatment condition and banned him from a one-mile radius of the victim’s fields and stables. (ANI)