A man has appeared in court accused of having thousands of indecent pictures and hundreds of indecent movies of children, scores of bestiality images and causing a 13-year-old to take an obscene picture of herself.
John Hanning, 61, of Lyndhurst Drive, Bicknacre, went before Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Wednesday (June 4) charged with 14 offences.
Across a number of electronic devices between June 2008 and February last year, he is said to have had 8,491 indecent images of children, 162 indecent movies of children and 168 of pictures of people having sex with animals.
Hanning also faces a charge of inciting a 13-year-old girl in 2011 to take an obscene picture of herself with explicit words written on her legs specifically referring to him.
He was bailed to reeappear for a plea and case management hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court on Tuesday, June 24.
