GP caught with library of extreme pornography including a man having sex with a SNAKE

A SICK doctor who watched extreme pornography including a video of a man having sex with a snake has been spared jail.

Dr Cyprian Okoro was caught with the sick clips on his Samsung Galaxy mobile phone after he was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.

One featured a two-year-old boy in a nappy while others contained graphic footage of women engaged in sex acts with dogs and a horse.

In one twisted video, a man could be seen having sex with a large snake positioned in between a naked woman’s legs, the Old Bailey heard.

The 55-year-old, who previously worked at a walk-in centre in Norwich, Norfolk, told jurors he was sent the films by friends and acquaintances via social messaging app WhatsApp.

He even claimed they may have been sent to “show how depraved society has become”.

But earlier this month he was found guilty of one count of possessing an indecent image of a child and three counts of possessing extreme pornographic images on 28 August 2013.

He was acquitted of two similar charges.

Judge Richard Hone QC today sentenced him to six months in prison, suspended for 12 months, and said: “You have betrayed the high standards of conduct required by your profession.” Okoro was previously handed a suspended sentence at Norwich Crown Court in September 2014 in relation to the same offences, but the conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal.

The judge, who earlier branded the sentence “quite lenient”, today told him: “You were fortunate not to receive an immediate custodial term.”

But he explained he was constrained by the previous sentence.

“You are correctly assessed as a low risk of re-offending,” he added.

The locum GP, who is currently suspended, faces being struck off the medical register by the General Medical Council.

The medic, who qualified in the UK in 1996, was previously suspended from working for 18 months in 2000.

Prosecutor Nicola Devas explained: “In April 2000, Dr Okoro was found guilty by the professional conduct committee of the GMC of serious professional misconduct and that related to him making inappropriate comments of a sexual nature.”

Okoro’s barrister, Stephen Akinsanya, said: “He has effectively, through his recklessness and stupidity, risked his whole career.

“Everything he has worked for, potentially, he has lost.

“It is unlikely he will be able to continue his work as a GP in this country.’

Okoro was originally arrested for sexual assault on a female, but the allegation did not result in a charge.

His phone was found to contain six illegal videos when it was seized by police on 28 August 2013.

Okoro told jurors he received up to 500 messages a week via WhatsApp but claimed the tiny proportion that were pornographic were sent by contacts without him asking them to do so.

“I didn’t know they were there,” he said, adding that he found them “revolting or disgusting” when he watched them with his barrister for the first time a year later.

“They were videos, the sort of things I really don’t delight in seeing,” he claimed.

Asked to explain why he was sent them, Okoro said: “To be honest, I can only guess that perhaps it is possibly to see how depraved society has become or maybe as a shock factor.”

But the prosecutor said three of the videos had been moved into a special password protected ‘vault’ and told jurors he must have known they were there.

“He has received videos via WhatsApp that have been downloaded onto his phone and three of these images have been specifically moved into a further password-protected vault,” she said.

“They are clearly images, videos, which are in his possession.”

One of the videos stored in the vault was of a two-year-old boy simulating sex with an adult woman.

Another was of a woman having sex with a dog, and the third featured a female having sex with a horse.

Mrs Devas said there were other pornographic images within the vault that were not illegal.

She explained the other three videos, including the one showing a man having sex with snake, were in the photo gallery on Okoro’s phone.

“When the results were discovered the defendant’s phone was seized again and he was arrested and interviewed on 6 February 2014,” the prosecutor said.

“It was forensically examined again. Two of the videos were still there in the vault. The rest had been deleted by that stage.”

Okoro did not dispute the material found on his phone was extreme pornography but said he did not know it was there.

His barrister said: “This defendant is not a paedophile. He has no interest in children.

“The one image that was sent to him was regrettable and abhorrent and he recognises that.”

He said Okoro poses no risk to youngsters, adding: “They have never been at risk while in his care, or his own children or those he has associated with professionally.”

The doctor of Tulse Hill, southwest London denied one count of possessing an indecent image of a child and five counts of possessing extreme pornographic images on 28 August 2013.

He was convicted of one count of possessing an indecent image of a child and three counts of possessing extreme pornographic images.

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