A MAN facing child and animal porn charges is to be arrested after failing to show up for court.

Richard Bugg, of Campbell Street in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, was due before Kirklees magistrates yesterday.

They issued a warrant for his arrest after he blamed a cancelled train on his lack of attendance.

Bugg faces 21 charges of making an indecent image of a child at an address in Huddersfield on or before October 6, 2011.

The girls allegedly involved were aged between three and 15.

Bugg is alleged to have 3,067 level one photographs, one level 2 photograph, 11 level 3 photographs and three level 4 photographs.

Images classed as level 4 show penetrative sex involving a child and adult.

Bugg, 37, is also charged with 10 counts of possessing an extreme pornographic image of a person performing an act of intercourse with an animal.

He is alleged to have had 65 of these images in his possession.

These images are described as grossly offensive, disgusting or of an obscene nature.

Bugg was due to appear at the Huddersfield court to be committed to stand trial at Leeds Crown Court.

His solicitor Carl Kingsley asked magistrates to grant a brief adjournment.

He told the bench that Bugg had been due to travel from Gainsborough but his train had been cancelled.

Mr Kingsley said: “I ask you to give him the benefit of the doubt and adjourn the case.

“I can’t see that anything positive would be achieved by arresting him.”

Alex Bozman, prosecuting, told magistrates: “I don’t have a great deal of knowledge of the train system, but even if one was cancelled he could have got here by mid-afternoon.”

Magistrates issued a warrant without bail.