Pervert caught with cobra and hamster porn ran ‘BarnLove’ and ‘PetSex’ accounts
Istvan Elek, 56, was found with the horrific material on his phone after asking others on a WhatsApp group to send him twisted images featuring animals
He was caught with a range of animal porn, it is claimed(Image: Gordon Currie)
A sex offender caught with snake and hamster porn is trying to persuade a court to let him withdraw his guilty plea.
Istvan Elek, 56, has already admitted having a collection of extreme pornography featuring pigs, hamsters, dogs, horses and a cobra. He was found with the deviant material on his phone after asking others on a WhatsApp group to send him twisted images featuring animals.
He admitted the charges but now wants to change his mind. He was due to be sentenced at Perth Sheriff Court but his solicitor withdrew from acting after telling the court Elek wished to back out from his guilty plea.
Elek was then given another solicitor to speak to and she confirmed to the court that she did not believe he had grounds for withdrawing his original plea. The court was told he wanted to plead not guilty after speaking to friends and family about the case but solicitor Linda Clark said she did not think the plea could be withdrawn.
She said: “I have explained to him that he was legally represented and he had an interpreter. The plea was confirmed with him by reading the charge and it will have been recorded.
“He gave his consent to pleas of guilty. In my view he will not succeed in having his pleas withdrawn, but he wishes the opportunity to take advice.”
He appeared in the dock previously and admitted having banned pornography featuring women having sex with animals.
Elek, from Kinross, Scotland admitted possessing extreme pornographic images at his former home in Milnathort between November 13 2021 and February 14 2024. He also admitted downloading indecent images of children at the same address in Marshall Place between August 15 and September 4 2023.
Elek admitted possessing indecent images of children between May 11 2022 and February 14 2024. He also admitted distributing child and extreme animal porn between September 29 2022 and Valentine’s Day in 2024.
Sheriff Paul Brown placed Elek on the sex offenders register and deferred sentence for the preparation of social work background reports. The welder flooded international bestiality networks with stomach-turning films of people having sex with animals.
Elek downloaded illicit files from various dark web group chats where likeminded perverts shared grotesque clips of women and children engaging in sex acts with animals. He also shared hundreds of sick files with the groups, which contained “a vast number” of members and went under Spanish-language names.
By the time police finished analysing the enormous cache of horror on the phone and two laptops they seized on their first trip to his home, Elek had bought a new mobile and amassed hours’ more sick footage. Officers raided his home and found a mobile phone device which showed Elek ran accounts called “BeastForum,” “BarnLove” and “PetSex”.
On the phone, police found 481 files, including 102 videos with a run time of more than two hours. Some of the material dated back to May 2022. The vile material depicted boys and girls aged from two to 14 being sexually abused by adults, other children and animals.
Police also discovered 3,448 “extreme pornography” files on the mobile, including 1,267 videos which, if played back-to-back, would have run for more than 46 hours. Among them was a clip of a masked woman engaging in a sex act with a pig and a dog.
Analysis of the phone showed Elek had been searching online for the terms “zoophilia and bestiality videos, pig porn, Asian zoo porn, porn cobra and zoo hamster.” He explained to police he was a member of a group chat in which extreme pornography was being shared.
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