Judge orders psychiatric tests for sex-fetish slurry pit man - Update

A judge has ordered a fresh psychiatric assessment on a man with a bizarre slurry fetish who had threatened to kill a Cornish farmer who had banned him from his land. David Truscott, aged 41, will be treated at Langdon Hospital in Dawlish while doctors decide if he is suitable for a hospital order and whether there restrictions need to be imposed on his freedom.

He has a strange obsession with rolling in cattle slurry which centres on a particular farm in West Cornwall where he was caught naked in a muck spreader. He has been jailed twice in the past for breaching a restraining order and going onto the land at Woodbury House Farm, Redruth, and rolling in slurry.



He carried on a six-year campaign of harassment against the Roth family who own the farm after he was released from his previous two-year jail sentence only last spring. Truscott was jailed in 2009 and 2011 for breaching restraining orders, going onto the Roth’s land and rolling naked in slurry.

The family took out a restraining order against him after he repeatedly trespassed and indulged his fetish for cow slurry. He was jailed for two years in March 2011 for threatening them after they cleared all the slurry from their farm to stop him. At that hearing at Truro Crown Court 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.”

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