George Danakis sentenced over St Marys Excessive College bestiality and break-in offences in Sydney’s west after he was caught on safety cameras

A person who took half in ice-fuelled, sexual escapades with sheep inside a college’s shed was not in his proper thoughts on the time of the offence, a court docket has been informed.

George Danakis, 44, had been awake for 5 days when he was caught together with his pants down by officers after having intercourse with a male sheep at St Marys Excessive College in Sydney‘s west in Might 2022. 

Instructing employees had caught him on CCTV after they suspected that somebody had been breaking into their milking shed after hours. 

Police discovered Danakis together with his pants down sexually participating with the male sheep whereas a feminine goat was noticed to be in a state of shock beside them on Might 18. 

Danakis pleaded responsible at Penrith District Courtroom to damaging property, bestiality, possessing bestiality materials, break and enter and possessing an unauthorised firearm earlier than he was sentenced to over three years behind bars.

George Danakis, 44, had been awake for 5 days when he was caught together with his pants down by officers after having intercourse with a male sheep at St Marys Excessive College in Sydney’s west in Might 2022

Instructing employees on the faculty had caught him on CCTV after they suspected that somebody had been breaking into their milking shed after hours

Footage that the educating employees had compiled was used as proof in opposition to Danakis throughout his trial. 

The court docket was informed that he was recorded herding two goats right into a gated space on Might 6 earlier than he was filmed per week later strolling across the similar shed bare from the waist down. 

When officers discovered Danakis 11 days later he informed them that he was within the shed on the time in search of his cellphone and that he had eliminated his pants to urinate.

A cellphone belonging to Danakis was discovered within the sheep paddock on June 24, but it surely solely added to his troubles when police searched it. 

Content material pertaining to bestiality was saved on the cellphone alongside a photograph of him holding a pump motion shotgun which he didn’t have permits for.

Danakis’ methamphetamine use main as much as his arrest, mixed together with his affinity for having fun with ‘sheep on the aspect’, led to ‘the state of the thoughts by which he did what he did’, his defence lawyer informed the court docket on Tuesday.

Danakis displayed ‘sexual deviance’, the court docket was informed, which made him lose all inhibitions. 

His lawyer shared that Danakis had informed his psychiatrist that he was solely interested in animals whereas beneath the affect of the drug as a result of it elevated his intercourse dive.

Danakis did finally admit to his psychiatrist that he was ‘just about into bestiality’ after seeing it on the web, however that he nonetheless appreciated ladies.

His methamphetamine use, mixed together with his affinity for having fun with ‘sheep on the aspect’, led to ‘the state of the thoughts by which he did what he did’, his defence lawyer informed Penrith District Courtroom

The court docket heard that Danakis was identified with schizophrenia and that he had stopped taking his prescribed remedy within the weeks earlier than his actions. 

Nevertheless it was agreed between the prosecution and defence that this was not a ‘causal’ issue towards offending, and that his ‘paraphilic dysfunction’ of attraction towards animals and his substance abuse had been key elements.

In figuring out an acceptable sentencing for the crimes, Choose Sophia Beckett cited a scarcity of case regulation which may very well be referred to and the curiosity of the crimes. 

Danakis was sentenced to a few and a half years in jail for his offences.