A pensioner was discovered to be in possession of a large horde of vile sexual images which included children and animals.
Michael Patrick, aged 70, confessed that he started looking at the pictures after struggling with the Covid-19 restrictions implemented last year.
However, he was keen to receive help to tackle his problem with the images, Hull Crown Court heard.
Hull Live reports that Patrick, from Hull, admitted to three offences of making indecent photographs of children and another of possessing extreme pornography.
Prosecutor Patrick Palmer said that police officers received information from the National Crime Agency in March 2020 linking the pensioner to accessing indecent images.
They went to his home on August 5 last year but he denied any wrongdoing.
Devices including a phone and a laptop were seized.
Police found 139 images of children in the most serious Category A, all moving images, with 36 in Category B, of which 34 were moving, and 26 in Category C, including 21 moving.
There were 54 extreme pornography images.
The haul had been downloaded between August 2018 and May last year.
Patrick had searched on a pornography website for "horse sex" and "dirty farmer" as well as "beastie girls".
He had convictions for 46 previous offences and had previously been jailed for sexual offences.
His most recent conviction was for benefit fraud in 2010.
Rachel Scott, mitigating, said that Patrick had suffered from poor health, including a cancer scare which led to a quarter of a lung being removed.
He had also undergone open heart surgery in April last year.
Patrick was at a very high risk of contracting Covid-19 and was struggling at the time that he accessed the images.
"He was isolated and lonely and did not feel that he could talk to anyone," said Miss Scott.
"He bottled it all up and dealt with it in an entirely inappropriate way."
Patrick claimed that he stumbled across the images accidentally at first but admitted that he did later seek them out.
He had looked into getting help from two charities which helped people with such problems.
Patrick was given a 16-week suspended prison sentence and 25 days' rehabilitation.
He was given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and must register as a sex offender for 10 years.
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