KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian student in London was jailed for five years for possession of over 30,000 images and videos of child pornography.
Imperial College London mathematics scholar Nur Nordin, 23, was handed the sentence at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday, after he pleaded guilty to 17 charges of possessing, making and distributing pornographic images of children in November.
International Business Times news agency reported that Nur Nordin, who lived in Queensborough Terrace in West London, was arrested after police searched his home in November.
It described that some of the images and videos in the student's possession as "the most extreme child porn photos Metropolitan Police Officers have ever seen".
"They had been alerted to Nordin after discovering an Internet account that had been downloading thousands of sexual abuse videos and images.
"When they searched his home in November 2014, police found Nordin with his laptop open, next to a life-size mannequin of a young boy," said the report, published on www.ibtimes.co.uk.
It was stated that the raiding party discovered 601 videos and images of category A (abuse involving penetrative sexual activity with children), as well as hundreds of category B and C.
There were, in total, more than 30,000 indecent images and videos of children being abused found by investigators after they searched his electronic devices.
"He was later charged with possessing 1,156 banned videos and images of child pornography, a vile cache that was described as the most severe investigators have seen," said the report.
The report also quoted Sara Keane, an officer with the Metropolitan Police's Serious Crime Unit, saying that "Nordin was involved in the making and sharing of some of the most extreme images that have ever been seen by officers that work in this field.
"The volume of images and the alarming content meant that a custodial sentence for Nordin was inevitable."
Nur Nordin was said to have arrived in the United Kingdom last year to further his study at the college.