AN Isle of Wight man accused of downloading a hoard of the most depraved kind of pornographic pictures, appeared before Island magistrates this morning (Tuesday).

Richard Younie, of Sutton Close, Ryde, declined to offer a plea to possessing 29 extreme pornographic images portraying an act of intercourse and/or oral sex with a dead and/or live animal, at his home on June 16.

The 61-year-old was bailed to reappear for a plea and trial preparation hearing at the Isle of Wight Crown Court on September 6.