A UK based Nigerian doctor was caught with a stash of ‘extreme’ pornographic materials, including a video of a man having sex with a snake, a UK court heard.

The doctor identified as Cyprian Okoro,  allegedly stored the images on his Samsung mobile phone having received them via mobile messaging app WhatsApp.

Specialists also found two other videos of a woman having sex with a dog and one of a woman having sex with a horse, jurors were told yesterday.

The defendant is on trial charged with five counts of possessing pornographic materials of a ‘grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise obscene character’.

Okoro was also charged with possessing indecent images of a child relating to a video of a two-year-old boy.

Opening the trial, prosecutor Nicola Devas told jurors they would be spared from watching the videos as the question of whether they were indecent or extreme was not at issue.

The footage was discovered when, on August 28 2013, Okoro’s Samsung phone was seized by police and examined by specialist officers from Norfolk Constabulary before being returned.

The forensic examination found three of the videos, including the one of a toddler, had been stored on a password protected specialist App or ‘vault’, the court heard.

In February 2014, the defendant was arrested and his phone examined by police for a second time.

The indecent video and footage of a woman having sex with a dog were still in the vault while other images had been deleted, the court heard.

In his police interview, Okoro said pictures would be sent to him on WhatsApp and automatically go
into his photos gallery.

As the indecent video had been manually moved to the vault, Mrs Devas told jurors it was clear he had viewed it.

In April 2000, the doctor was found guilty by the General Medical Council’s Professional Misconduct Committee for indecent breach of trust, leading to an imposition of conditions on how he could practice for 18 months.

Okoro had been accused of indecently quizzing a pregnant 16-year-old girl about whether she enjoyed sex with her boyfriend. He also asked her to stick out her tongue to see if she was any good at oral sex, and suggested that she should touch him.

In a separate incident, Okoro asked a 35-year-old woman recovering from cervical cancer about whether she liked sex, how often she had it, in what positions, and whether her husband had any problems getting an erection.