A man banned from having custody of animals admitted to Bingley Magistrates that he looked after two dogs at his home.

Mark Hudson, of Short Close, Wyke, who pleaded guilty to having custody of two dogs on September 6, 2000 while disqualified from having custody of animals for eight years, was ordered to undertake community punishment.

Magistrates adjourned the hearing for a community punishment report.

The court was told that an RSPCA inspector saw the two dogs at Hudson's home. He admitted having control of them for six months.

Paul Fitzpatrick, for Hudson, said the dogs belonged to Hudson's employers, a security company.

He had been in charge of them while on night duty on the site of Eccleshill School, Bradford, while it was being demolished.

He had taken the dogs home because his bosses had failed to remove them from the site on the last day of the project. They had collected them later in the week.