Hereford man jailed for child sex offences and bestiality

A man from Hereford has been sentenced to eleven years in prison after he pleaded guilty to child sex offences and bestiality.

Knill Watkins, 34, from Withington in Hereford he pleaded on 4 September 2023 and was sentenced on Friday 27 October at Hereford Crown Court.

He was sentenced for the following offences:

• Three counts of making indecent photograph of a child
• Observe a person doing a private act
• Two counts of sexual penetration per vagina/anus by a person with a living animal
• Possess extreme pornographic image/images portraying an act of intercourse/oral sex with a dead/alive animal.
• Possess a prohibited image of a child
• Two counts of assault a girl under 13 by touching

The offences took place between 2012 and 2021.

Detective Constable Rich Britton said: “Watkins is a dangerous individual who committed horrendous crimes. I’m pleased that he will now face the consequences for his actions and will rightly be identified as a sex offender for life and spend time in prison.

“We take all forms of child abuse incredibly seriously and I hope this result shows the effort we put into making sure children in our community are safe from sexual predators”.