Fetishist sniffed shoe shop assistant's feet Alan Kirby, 31, asked the unsuspecting member of staff to try on a pair of high heeled slingbacks, a court heard yesterday. He stroked and sniffed at her feet. He then revealed he hadn't got a girlfriend and offered to buy the shoes for her," said Nick Adlington, prosecuting. The assistant left and asked a colleague in the shoe department at the store in Harrogate to deal with Kirby. He was later arrested and pleaded guilty to sexual assault, York Crown Court heard. Nigel Edwards, defending Kirby, said: "It is an odd offence." Mr Edwards told an earlier hearing: "He has a foot fetish and was drunk. Had he not been in drink that day this would not have happened. Sentencing Kirby to a six-month community order, Judge Shaun Spencer QC told him that he had behaved in a "disgraceful way."