Ananova:

A Serbian farmer has been allowed to take his prize bull to prison with him after an emotional appeal to jail bosses.

Hamdija Djuric, 54, from Novi Sad was sentenced to a year in prison for assault after he hit another man during an argument in a local bar.

But judges ruled he could take his one-and-a-half ton bull Micko with him after lawyers argued that if the farmer went to jail the bull would have to be slaughtered.

They said there was no one to look after him and that the animal was too valuable to the farmer to be put down.

Micko will be kept in a specially converted cell on the ground floor at the prison. If both are well behaved they should be free by Christmas.