A FORMER video shop owner denied eight charges of possessing obscene films featuring graphic animal pornography at a court hearing last Thursday, July 18.

Robert Levy, 54, went before a judge at Swindon Crown Court charged with possessing the videos and intending to rent them out for financial gain.

Levy, of Parklands, Trowbridge, also denied three counts of infringing video copyright laws.

A trial date will be set at a hearing in September.