THE Berrow Primary School teacher at the centre of a child porn storm has been told it would be "appropriate" for him to go to jail, after he admitted downloading hundreds of indecent pictures and movies from the internet.

Anthony Harvey, who worked at the school until his arrest in April this year, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to 18 charges of possessing indecent pictures of children - and was told by magistrates that a jail term would be a suitable punishment.

Sandra Howard, prosecuting, told the court that the disgraced teacher had developed "an addiction" to the vile images after the break-up of his marriage, and began visiting illegal internet sites two or three times a week.