May 2022

Bexhill pervert sentenced for multiple rapes

A Bexhill man who committed a series of sexual offences including multiple rapes against a schoolgirl has now faced justice with an 18-year prison sentence.

Keith Alan Fairbrother, 59, of Glovers Lane, Bexhill, was sentenced at Chichester Crown Court on 9 May, having been convicted after a two-week trial, of four offences of rape and three offences of sexual assault by penetration.

Fairbrother, then in his forties, repeatedly assaulted and raped the girl over a five-year period in the early-2000s when she was in her early teens and in school