A MAN accused of possessing indecent images of children and of a person performing a sex act with an animal is due to appear at a crown court next week.

David Anthony Wilkinson, 48, of Cobden Street, Dalton, is to make the appearance before Preston Crown Court on October 11 having denied three charges when he appeared at South Cumbria Magistrates’ Court in September.

He is accused of making indecent photographs between January 1 and March 8 2018 and also charged with possessing ‘extreme animal porn'.