Gilbertson was jailed for four and a half years. The attack has left his father in fear of his own son, leaving his family home of more than 50 years. A judge said: “This is a tragic case. The bonds between parents and their children are perceived to be unbreakable. But when they are broken, they are broken irrevocably. “It fills me with great sadness that you have deprived yourself of the relationship with your father.”
Andrew Spilling Spilling was jailed for two years and four months. The 32-year-old twice tried to escape police, but left his jacket in an abandoned car after a police chase. Officers then found his DNA on the packages inside.
Off duty paramedics saw rapist Aynul Hoque with the man on Brighton beach. The victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, had been on a night out and went to sit on the beach after meeting friends. But Hoque, 32, drank vodka with the man, and when he became “deeply unconscious” Hoque pulled down his trousers and raped him in a “truly horrific” attack. It left the victim feeling so depressed that he felt suicidal and feared he had HIV. At Brighton Crown Court Hoque was jailed for eight years for the sex attack. Jennifer Gray, prosecuting, said the incident happened at about 5am on August 1 last year.