Teh One Who Knocks
10-30-2014, 11:27 AM
BY Lee Moran - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
A British man arrested for owning "extreme porn" featuring a woman having sex with a tiger was cleared after lawyers realized the cat was, in fact, a man in a costume.
Andrew Holland was arrested and charged with possessing bestiality porn after friends sent him the clip as a joke. The footage appeared to show a woman having sex with the wild animal.
The 51-year-old bus driver spent a stressful six months on bail and suffered a near-fatal heart attack after being targeted by online vigilantes.
Mistakenly labeled a pedophile, he was banned from seeing his young daughter for more than a year. And he told The Independent that he lost his job and was also forced to leave his home town.
But his case was finally dropped in December 2009 after investigators realized that the tiger in the footage was actually a man wearing a costume. They discovered their embarrassing mistake after listening to the clip again — and hearing the man echoing Frosted Flakes’ mascot Tony the Tiger's famous catchphrase, “They're grrrrrreat!"
Holland, whose computer was confiscated over an unrelated domestic dispute that didn't end in charges, is now demanding a change in the law. He wants to prevent "harmless but crude jokes" from ending in prosecution.
His legal team has written to the director of Public Prosecutions and say they are prepared to go all the way to the British High Court to seek a judicial review.
A British man arrested for owning "extreme porn" featuring a woman having sex with a tiger was cleared after lawyers realized the cat was, in fact, a man in a costume.
Andrew Holland was arrested and charged with possessing bestiality porn after friends sent him the clip as a joke. The footage appeared to show a woman having sex with the wild animal.
The 51-year-old bus driver spent a stressful six months on bail and suffered a near-fatal heart attack after being targeted by online vigilantes.
Mistakenly labeled a pedophile, he was banned from seeing his young daughter for more than a year. And he told The Independent that he lost his job and was also forced to leave his home town.
But his case was finally dropped in December 2009 after investigators realized that the tiger in the footage was actually a man wearing a costume. They discovered their embarrassing mistake after listening to the clip again — and hearing the man echoing Frosted Flakes’ mascot Tony the Tiger's famous catchphrase, “They're grrrrrreat!"
Holland, whose computer was confiscated over an unrelated domestic dispute that didn't end in charges, is now demanding a change in the law. He wants to prevent "harmless but crude jokes" from ending in prosecution.
His legal team has written to the director of Public Prosecutions and say they are prepared to go all the way to the British High Court to seek a judicial review.