David Truscott, 41, was discovered in a field, covered in manure and mud and naked apart from a single sock, by the farmer’s 16-year-old son on February 26 this year.
Truro Crown Court heard that Truscott, of Camborne, had already been jailed for an
arson attack which killed a cow at the farm belonging to Clive Roth, and a string of other offences linked to his sexual thrill at rolling in slurry.
Sentencing Truscott for breaching a restraining order and harassment, Judge Christopher Elwen told him: “For a period of at least six years, if not longer, you have made the home life of the Roth family absolute hell through your bizarre fetish and disgusting
behaviour.”
Truscott was first caught at the Roth family farm near Redruth, in 2004, when he was discovered committing a sex act in a muck spreader. Because of his actions, the family cleaned the muck spreader to deter him.
The court heard yesterday that this had made him so angry that he set fire to a cattle pen containing a cow and her twin newborn calves.
The cow was killed in the ensuing blaze and Truscott was later jailed for three years for arson and burglary.
In 2009 he was again discovered at the farm after breaking into the farm under the cover of darkness, undressing and getting into a muck spreader before again committing a sex act.
He was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison and made the subject of a restraining order, which he breached for the second time in February.
Prosecuting, Gareth Evans said: “The impact of this man’s actions on a law-abiding family cannot be overstated.
“After the first offences they had to reassure a three-year-old boy that their house wasn’t going to catch on fire, They had to go around with him every night to make sure the fire alarms were working.
“Mr Roth’s mother lives in fear that her house on the farm is going to be the subject of an arson attack.
He added that Mr Roth’s eldest son Brandon, now 16, had discovered Truscott cowering by a hedge in a field in February.
“He was naked apart from one sock and was covered in cow excrement and mud. There were tissues littered around him.”
Mark Charnley, defending, said Truscott was a “sad, vulnerable, socially inadequate man” with no close family, a history of depression and learning disabilities.
He suggested Truscott was suffering from a form of autism which led him to commit his crimes while under stress.
“He does show remorse for what he did and a realisation of the harm he was doing to the family,” said Mr Charnley.
He said Truscott feared custody and asked that he receive a suspended sentence.
But Judge Elwen rejected his plea, saying he had to be jailed for his “bizarre and perverted activities”.
He sentenced Truscott to serve two years for breaching the restraining order and three months to be served concurrently for harassment.
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