A computer technician denied charges of downloading indecent photographs of children from the Internet.

Mark Craig, 30, who works at Research Machines, Milton Business Park, near Abingdon, pleaded not guilty at Didcot Magistrates' Court to six charges including three of making indecent photographs of children, and three of possessing indecent photographs of children.

The alleged offences took place at Milton Park and Sutton Courtenay between January 2000 and August last year.

Magistrates declined to hear the case, and Craig, of Forresters Tower, Wood Farm, Oxford, will be tried at Oxford Crown Court.

He was remanded on unconditional bail until March 7 for the preparation of committal proceedings.