A MAN with a sexual fetish for children's shoes has been banned indefinitely from touching youngsters' clothes and footwear.

Darryl Kwiatkowski, 24, of Jute Road, Acomb, is currently serving a three-year community order after admitting robbing two schoolgirls in the street of their shoes and stealing children's clothing and footwear.

When he sentenced him last February at York Crown Court, Recorder Richard Wright QC said: "I am quite satisfied that what lay behind your offending was that you are developing or have developed a sexual fetish or interest in children's shoes, socks and clothing."

Although he made Kwiatkowski go on a sex offenders' treatment programme as part of his punishment, he didn't make a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) restricting his behaviour.

If defendants commit sexual offences, judges can make sexual harm prevention orders (SHPO) curbing their future behaviour in a bid to prevent them committing similar offences.

The judge wanted to make such an order, but believed he didn't have the power to do so, because Kwiatkowski hadn't been convicted of a sexual offence.

But the prosecution brought the case back to court after its barrister Rob Galley did some research and convinced him that he did have the power.

So the judge made a SHPO which included the ban on Kwiatkowski touching footwear or clothing that had been worn by girls.

Mr Galley said the law allowed judges to make SHPOs when a defendant pleaded guilty to robbery under certain conditions.

Kwiatkowski's defence team agreed with Mr Galley's reading of the law and did not oppose the making of the SHPO.

The order, which will last indefinitely, also includes a condition that Kwiatkowski doesn't live or sleep in the same house as a female child.

He is currently childless, and the judge said that if he becomes a father, then he could apply to the crown court to vary the order.