A paedophile who shared child rape videos online also had dozens of images showing a man having sex with a dog.
Alan Bainbridge collected more than 500 sickening child sex abuse files over a period of around four months last year.
When police arrested the 62-year-old they found he had also amassed 52 extreme porn images involving animals.
Liverpool Crown Court heard Bainbridge previously admitted six sexual offences when he appeared before magistrates.
He pleaded guilty to one count of possessing, three counts of downloading and one count of distributing indecent images of children, plus possessing extreme pornography.
According to the charges, Bainbridge shared indecent videos of children falling into Category A - the most serious category showing child rape - from an address in Warrington on May 9, 2020.
He downloaded 151 Category A, 87 Category B and 263 Category C indecent images of children between January 8, 2020 and May 13, 2020.
And he possessed 52 images which portrayed "a person performing an act of intercourse with a live animal, namely dogs, which were grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character".
Bainbridge, now of Doward Street, Widnes, appeared in the dock this afternoon, when his defence lawyer requested an adjournment so he could be interviewed by the Probation Service.
Kyra Badman, defending, said: "As your honour knows there was a request for a pre-sentence report in the lower court, which was refused by the magistrates, perhaps understandably, because Mr Bainbridge faces the very serious offence in particular of distributing indecent images.
"The starting point by my interpretation of the guidelines for that offence is one of three years.
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