A MAN has appeared before Blackburn magistrates charged with possessing a stun gun and drug-related offences.

Mark Andrew Wall, 47,of Heys Lane, Darwen, was sent on bail to Preston Crown Court charged with producing cannabis, possession of the stun gun and abstracting electricity.

The court heard another man, Sean Ranson Bean, had already been sent to the Crown Court on the same charges. The two men will appear there on August 8.