A BOGUS filmmaker who made hundreds of videos of naked teenage girls was jailed for six years yesterday.

Lawrence Petch gave his business card to schoolgirls, who flocked to his house in dinner breaks and at weekends.

He bought a wardrobe of outfits for them, sex toys and bottles of baby oil.

Jobless Petch, 53, spent all his benefit money paying girls £40 to dance naked while he plied them with vodka and wine.

His stars were two 16-year-olds, but others were as young as 12.

Child protection officers who raided his home, on a tip- off from a mother, caught him in his bedroom watching one of his own porn videos of four naked local girls, said Shaun Dodds, prosecuting.

Detective Sergeant Chris Ashford and Detective Constable Katy Ord spent weeks tracing the girls, who were filmed in a bedroom behind a door labelled Sex Club.

Teesside Crown Court heard that some of the girls stayed overnight at his house.

The 16-year-olds took a 14-year-old along one Sunday afternoon telling her they were going to do some modelling.

When police showed Petch one of his indecent videos of a 13-year-old, he said he thought she was 16 but admitted he had never asked. He had a string of convictions for sex offences.

Eric Elliott, mitigating, said that Petch, of Parker Terrace, Ferryhill, County Durham, was a lonely man living in a fantasy world.

He pleaded guilty to eight charges of making payment for sexual services, four of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, four of taking indecent photos of a child, and one of sexual activity with a child under 16 between May and August last year.

As well as the six-year sentence, he was given an extended release licence for a further seven years, ordered to register as a sex offender for life, and banned from working with children.

He was also banned from buying female underwear or clothing, and from giving money or property to anyone under 18, except family members.