A man who admitted carrying out a sex act while looking at animal porn and while holding a baby seagull that he had captured has been jailed for 24 weeks. David Lee, 40, appeared in court on Wednesday, where he had admitted causing unnecessary suffering to the herring gull at a previous hearing.
The incident happened in Sunderland at about 1am on August 18 last year. Magistrates handed him an immediate 24-week jail term and banned him from keeping animals for 10 years.
Lesley Burgess, prosecuting, said: "This was a deliberate and gratuitous act that caused suffering."
