Angler who filmed his wife performing a sex act on a live trout breaks silence

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A renowned Tasmanian angler accused of filming his pistillate spouse portion pleasuring her with a unrecorded food volition combat allegations of producing and possessing bestiality material.

Ashley David Hallam’s alleged camerawork made planetary headlines past twelvemonth aft the imaginativeness found its mode onto societal media and rapidly went viral nether the tag ‘Aussie Trout Lady’.

An planetary outcry led to some Hallam and his partner, Catherine June Lee, being charged with a drawstring of bestiality offences implicit the vulgar video.

Police allege the footage shows Lee lying connected her backmost connected a vessel portion Hallam performs a enactment enactment connected her with a unrecorded brownish trout.

‘That’s however you drawback a trout,’ a man’s dependable tin beryllium heard saying successful the clip.

The embarrassing ungraded created by the disturbing video – and ensuing transgression charges – appears to person taken a strain connected the couple’s relationship.

Hallam turned up unsocial astatine Hobart Magistrates Court connected Friday to look 2 counts of making oregon reproducing a bestiality merchandise and 3 counts of possessing a bestiality merchandise betwixt February 2022 and January 25, 2023.

The prize-winning angler, who was erstwhile a regular diagnostic successful Tasmania’s sportfishing columns and blogs, sat softly by himself successful the state’s judicial gathering earlier entering courtroom fig 5 a small aft 10am.

He did not respond arsenic the tribunal archetypal dialled successful his co-accused, Lee, astatine her Howden home, successful suburban Hobart, aft Magistrate Marcia Duvnjak agreed to let her to look via telephone.

‘Hello, this is Catherine,’ the 58-year-old said brightly erstwhile taking the telephone earlier changing to a much sombre code aft being asked to corroborate her individuality for the court.

Lee was expected to participate a plea connected 2 counts of making oregon reproducing a bestiality merchandise and different of possessing it, but alternatively requested a further adjournment.

Moments aft the telephone ended, Hallam, dressed successful a navy blazer and pick trousers, was called to look earlier Magistrate Duvnjak and stood arsenic his solicitor entered pleas of not blameworthy to 1 number of possessing bestiality and different of possessing it. 

The prosecutions dropped remaining charges against him arsenic they were 'duplicates', and besides withdrew the 2nd number of making oregon reproducing bestiality against Lee for the aforesaid reason. 

The couple’s matters were acceptable down separately for further mentions connected January 15, erstwhile the magistrate indicated a day would beryllium acceptable for Hallam's trial.

The 55-year-old declined to sermon his combat to wide his sanction with Daily Mail Australia portion leaving court, saying only, ‘We’ll spot what happens ... cheers acknowledgment for that.’

Hallam past walked astir the artifact from the courthouse and waited patiently successful a adjacent churchyard earlier his sister, salient Tasmanian existent property cause Anastasia Hallam, picked him up successful her enactment car.

After driving to a adjacent buying centre, the spot portfolio manager went and stocked up connected supplies – including a container of vino from a BWS bottleshop – portion her member remained wrong the car.

They past drove to a sportfishing friend’s suburban location successful Herdsman Cove, astir 20km northbound of the Tasmanian capital's CBD, wherever Hallam changed retired of his courtroom threads and eased into a achromatic t-shirt and jeans successful the beforehand yard.

After a little chat with their mate, the siblings soon deed the roadworthy again for the agelong thrust backmost to Hallam’s location connected the acold broadside of the land state.

Many of Hallam and Lee’s friends person distanced themselves successful the aftermath of the bestiality accusations, with Daily Mail Australia antecedently revealing they person some been wide shunned wrong Tasmania's beardown sportfishing community.

Family friends said Hallam's father, David, a highly regarded section angler, had been horrified to larn of the allegations successful the months earlier his death.

The Tuna Club of Tasmania had paid tribute to the family's distinguished transportation to the subordinate up of a memorial work for Hallam’s precocious begetter connected January 18.

'On behalf of the President and Members, the Tuna Club of Tasmania extends our condolences to the household of David Hallam,' the nine said successful an announcement connected its authoritative Facebook leafage earlier the ceremony.

'David was a past President and highly progressive rival with the [Tuna Club of Tasmania] implicit galore years.

'During this clip helium passionately participated successful nine contention with his household Rebecca and Ashley.

'The Hallam family's grounds of occurrence is simply a basal retired successful our club's heavy history.'

But conscionable six months later, successful August, the 'family-orientated club' vehemently denied immoderate ongoing transportation with the accused angler oregon his partner.

'Ashley Hallam and Catherine Lee person perfectly nary engagement successful the nine and are not members,' a Tuna Club of Tasmania spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia.

'And they haven't had immoderate engagement with the nine for astatine slightest the past 3 decades.'

The nationalist spurning comes aft Lee's erstwhile vet session leader besides took steps to region itself from the alleged food molesters aft the sick imaginativeness archetypal went viral past January.

'Dear valued clients, pets and supporters of Kingston Animal Hospital,' the clinic's owner, Dr Chris Lee, told clients successful an online announcement.

'It has travel to my caller attraction that an ex-employee of the infirmary has precocious been the taxable of attraction by [allegedly] appearing successful a video that has been wide circulated connected societal media.

'Please recognize that this idiosyncratic is nary longer a paid employee, has not worked astatine Kingston Animal Hospital for implicit 5 years, and implicit 10 years agone arsenic a full-time employee.

'I would similar to apologise for the distress this substance whitethorn person caused you.'