by Paul Hooper

A woman who had sex with pet dogs has been banned from being an owner for the next 10 years.

Tracy Woolridge, aged 45, was also jailed for 16 months for taking part in acts of depravity - which were filmed by a lover.

The mum-of-four from the Close, Downs Road, Canterbury admitted charges of intercourse with an animal and sexual activity with a young child.

Canterbury Crown Court heard how she became drawn into a world of perversion after meeting up with 35-year-old Gary Underhill.

In June this year, police officers raided his home in Duck Lane, Canterbury on suspicion he had been taking indecent images of children.

Prosecutor Denzil Pugh told how detectives found he had been using the Wifi services of an unsuspecting neighbour to trade his vile photographs.

Underhill admitted possessing more than 200 indecent and extreme pornographic images and videos and aiding and abetting Woolridge to have sex with a dog and engage in sexual activity with a child.

Judge Adele Williams gave him an eight-year prison sentence - which included a four-year extended licence period.

He was banned from working with children for life and will remain on the Sex Offender's Register.

Among the videos and photographs found in Duck Lane, officers discovered pictures of a woman having sex with a chocolate Labrador- which were taken at a house in Tunbridge Wells.

They were filed by Underhill - who took all the photographs - under the label: "Tracy Dogs".

Mr Pugh told how they tracked Woolridge to her home after discovering correspondence between the two. She was arrested the following day.

The court heard how the two had met in Internet chatrooms and began a relationship.

Underhill would later claim he only downloaded indecent images and took the photographs "for research" purposes.

But the judge told him: "You delude no-one but yourself. This was depravity of a high degree. You plainly have a perverted and depraved sexual interest in children."