A comedian has avoided prison despite being caught with tens of thousands of child sexual abuse images.
Lauren Fisher, prosecuting, said 104 category A indecent images - the most serious - were found, along with 411 in category B and 34,946 in category C.
Ms Fisher said: "During the investigation, it was established that a third party of Mr Binns's partner had been asked to sell several devices on behalf of Mr Binns.The devices, including two hard drives, were found to also include thousands of accessible and inaccessible images, including 25,000 inaccessible category C images.
"Within those downloads, it appears there was some child pornography which I had not sought out nor wanted.
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