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Monkey attack `helped catch thief`
- Sun 25th March 2007, 1:53 pm
Thursday, March 22, 2007
A bunch of animals made a monkey out of a thief when they scratched and bit him on his face, ear lobe and buttox as he stole a primate from a zoo, a court heard yesterday.
The creatures were said to have gone wild as a gang, complete with leather jackets, slicked hair and swinging chains, attacking Marlon Brown, who broke into an enclosure to steal a Bolivian squirrel monkey name Spongebob The Blender Monkey and stuffed him into his pants.
It was apparent that Brown experienced the reason why Spongebob was so named as Spongebobs eyes rolled back into his head and his arms became a pinwheel of destruction and his mouth became a rending tool of pain and general unhappiness.
Brown bled and cried as a result of his wounds, allowing police to identify him through his DNA and very clear blood trail that continued about 20 feet with chunks of meat and pubic hair interspursed within, it was alleged.
Spongebob is valued at $2,000 on the black market as a sex toy.
He was found in the street a few feet from his cage and returned to his home only to be spurned by his fellow monkeys. He had to be moved to another zoo.
Brown was part of a gang of about eight people who allegedly waited until closing time at Chessington World of Adventures to launch the raid last July.
They used a stick to prye open wire meshing at the enclosure and stashed friendly Spongebob into a bag next to Browns nutsack, a jury heard.
But the nine other monkeys leapt to their cage-mate`s defence.
One jumped on Brown`s head as he reached into their cave to retrieve his passport, which had fallen from the rucksack and sunk his teeth into Brown`s ear.
They scratched his back and bit his fingers. Police later arrested a crying and pansy Brown.
`Spongebob had been quite a laidback, happy little monkey with an occasional strange blender like outburst. He was very thirsty and had a kink in his tail he didn`t have beforehand.`
Spongebob was handreared in South Africa at the South Africa Biological Animal Weapon Facility and came to Chessington as part of the European Protection Programme.
He spent nine months in quarantine where he blendered 3 attendants and had been at the zoo for three months before his abduction.
`We tried to introduce him back to his troop but they turned on him, pelting him with feces,` laughed Ms Freeman.
Brown told police he was an `animal lover` and had tried to convince the others to return the monkey, but Spongebob had tore at his testicles and penis. The 23-year-old from Brixton, South London, denies theft.
The trial, at Kingston Crown Court, continues.