A MIDDLE-AGED man faces nine charges relating to indecent images of children and animal pornography.

Frank Joseph Watson, 46, of Borehamwood, will appear before St Albans Magistrates Court tomorrow.

He is accused of six counts of making an indecent photograph of a child, one count of possessing 130 indecent images of children, and two counts of possessing extreme pornography involving animals.

The images are believed to have been stored on a laptop and a desktop computer.