A TEENAGE paedophile with a fetish for girls’ clothing has been jailed for breaking into a primary school to steal gym kits.

Police found the sportswear in Phillip Kirk’s bedroom, along with a coat he had stuffed with a duvet – with which he simulated sex.

Officers traced Kirk after he left a wallet containing his driving licence at the scene near Northallerton, North Yorkshire, last September.

When his computers were examined, experts found more than 2,500 indecent images of children, Teesside Crown Court heard.

After being questioned and released on bail, the 18-yearold college student bought another laptop and downloaded more indecent pictures.

The court heard that more than 2,000 images – some in the most serious category – had been made before his second arrest two months later.

Tamara Pawson, prosecuting, said: “He said he got sexual gratification from the clothes, as well as the images.”

The court heard that Kirk was convicted in 2010 and last year for possessing indecent images and received a warning in 2009 when he was 15.

Miss Pawson told Judge Peter Fox that, on one occasion, Kirk’s parents called police when they found pictures in his bedroom. When he was 15, Kirk was cautioned for possessing child pornography and trying to access pictures on his school computer system.

Judge Fox told him: “If you go on, you could be spending the rest of your life in prison.”

Kirk, of Fernwood Close, Northallerton, was jailed for three years after he admitted making and possessing indecent photographs and burglary.

The court heard he broke into Brompton Primary School, tried to get onto the computer network and rummaged through gym bags.

His barrister, Carl Swift, said: “There is hope that, with assistance, he will not blight his life forever.”