A man accused of child porn offences and having extreme porn involving a horse faces a crown court trial.

Glenn Morley of Woburn Avenue, Theydon Bois, is charged with downloading indecent images of a child between September 24 2010 and October 26 2015, including 14 still images in the most serious category A, and nine still images in category C.

Mr Morley, 57, is accused of possessing the images to “show or distribute”.

He was released on bail at Chelmsford Magistrates Court yesterday (October 17), on condition he does not have unsupervised contact with anyone under 18 other than named relatives.

A plea and trial preparation hearing has been set for November 14 at Chelmsford Crown Court.