…..that this particular offender is only fixated on horses.
This case, one that has been reported on the Hull Live website, is a really really odd one. It’s a case of a defendant who is obsessed by equine bestiality and who also appears to be engaging in a series of very well planned attacks on horses.
Hull Live said:
A 52-year-old married man had sex with a pony while drunk and on drugs. Abdul Ghani was arrested after horse owners reported finding a torch, bags of carrots and a supermarket receipt discarded in secluded areas.
When a pony was found with black electrical tape and elasticated bandage attached to its tail, a vet and a forensic scientist carried out an examination and a DNA sample from inside the animal matched Ghani. Ghani has been jailed for 10 months and has been banned from entering any field, paddock or stable in England and Wales containing horses, ponies or donkeys, reports YorkshireLive.
Prosecutor Michael Collins said a car linked to Ghani was seen parked near to wear the pony was found and baby oil and a bag of carrots could be seen inside it. When an officer drove by his home an Audi vehicle parked outside was also found to have a bottle of baby oil in it.
The article went on to say that the court heard that Ghani’s communication devices, once examined, contained a very large number of internet searches for horse bestiality content. This particular defendant appears to have an obsession with horses and not in any good or wholesome way.
What intrigues me about this case is that there is one aspect of this case that stands out and that is the planning that the defendant went through in order to assault horses. This behaviour included carrying around in his car a veritable ‘horse rape kit’, including carrots to tempt the horses to come to him.
This defendant is not a chaotic drunk or junkie or even someone who can genuinely be said to be mentally ill who has been caught interfering with animals. This is a person who calmly made the decision to plan for horse assault and acted out those plans in a manner that a more chaotic person might not be able to organise and carry out. I’d say that this element of planning may make this person much more of a concern or even a danger to society than other similar offenders. It’s good that he’s been gaoled but whether or not ten months inside will cure him of a desire to bugger horses remains to be seen.
Whilst this offence has caused hurt and distress to both the horses and the horses owners, maybe we should be somewhat thankful that he’s targeted animals and not children. However it should be a matter of concern that this offender could leave prison in very much less than a year’s time and still be as much as a consent ignoring deviant as he was when he went in. I don’t believe for one moment that this one is mad but instead is just plain bad.
With regard to rulings on bestiality in Sunni Islam, one will find on the web assertion that it is prohibited: https://seekersguidance.org/answers/halal-and-haram/what-is-the-ruling-of-bestiality-in-islam. Even a somewhat-famed apparent permission of it by Twelver Shi’ite Ayatollah Khomeini seems to have been written more with the thought of “what to do if you really can’t restrain yourself” in mind: https://www.boreal.ca/Interviews/Lolita.htm. However, it does seem that the practice is encountered in “Arab tribal cultures” (though I do not know how this compares to other cultures): https://radicalmuslims.wordpress.com/2017/09/28/sex-with-animal-in-islam.
What a disgusting story, may I suggest if this man is so entranced with horses he might benefit from being gelded. I would even pay a vet to do this for him out of my own pocket.