Overview
- The Pontypridd coroner heard that tests detected human and non‑human semen, with the non‑human DNA matching a man's dog.
- CCTV shown at the hearing captured two sexual encounters that night, while a third encounter involving a man and his dog was described in testimony.
- A pathologist floated a possible link between exposure to dog seminal fluid and sudden death, a suggestion investigators said could not be used to attribute cause.
- The initial medical entry recorded sudden death in a man with bronchial asthma in temporal association with alcohol consumption and sexual activity.
- Police previously arrested the dog's owner on suspicion of manslaughter before releasing him without charge, and the body was found partially covered by cardboard boxes in a secluded car park.