A disgraced private school teacher who discussed abusing a caged child before killing them in a 'sick fantasy' was today jailed for 16 months.

Chemistry teacher Scott Whitlock, 45, taught at the prestigious Kimbolton School in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, when he was arrested in June last year.

His crimes were discovered after his estranged partner discovered the twisted files on his computer.

Police then launched an investigation and raided Whitlock's home in Bedfordshire on June 15 last year.
They discovered 505 abuse images as well as correspondence online with other paedophiles where he lived out sick fantasies, Cambridgeshire Crown Court heard.

Tim Brown, prosecuting, said: 'She had asked Mr Whitlock to leave when she discovered
photos on a computer in the household.
'She had discovered a memory stick that he had left behind.
'She investigated the memory stick on her computer and discovered a series of files where indecent material was stored.
'These included photos of girl pupils which were not in themselves indecent but were associated with files that were indecent.'

Police later examined Whitlock's computer which revealed he regularly talked with numerous other paedophiles online.

During this correspondence he shared one indecent image.
He also came very close to one fellow abuser, called Phillipa.75 - who it later emerged was a man.

They would live out sick fantasies online over the nine month period before his arrest, the court heard.

In them, Whitlock and Phillipa played adults with young daughters called Pippa and Naomi respectively, who they would abuse in sick roleplays.

Mr Brown added: '(They discussed) the possibility of acquiring a crated child and abusing it, killing it and disposing of the body.
'There are graphic representations of the manner of the abuse and the manner the child would have been killed.'