A 39-year-old drag queen died after a sexual encounter with a dog in a Cardiff car park, an inquest has heard. Darren Meah-Moore, who performed as Crystal Couture and CC Quinn, was found dead under cardboard boxes in a lane near Pulse nightclub.
CCTV footage showed Meah-Moore had sexual encounters with two men earlier that night. A third man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court his dog was involved in a sexual encounter with the drag queen in a secluded car park. The man said he 'lost interest' when Meah-Moore continued to allow the pet to have sex with him, and later found him asleep and unresponsive.
Tests found 'human and non-human' semen inside Meah-Moore's body, with DNA matching the man's dog. Pathologists said the death was not traumatic. Coroner David Regan noted a suggestion that sudden death might have arisen from dog semen, but Detective Superintendent Paul Raikes said sensitivity to dogs could not be attributed as the cause.
The medical cause of death was given as sudden death in a man with bronchial asthma who had consumed alcohol, in temporal association with sexual activity including anal intercourse. The dog's owner was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter but released without charge.
Meah-Moore was a registered sex offender, jailed in 1999 for rape of a boy under 16, and given a community order in 2011 for sexual activity with a child. His family described him as a loving husband, son, brother and uncle, and 'right at the heart of Cardiff's gay community'.
