Locations
Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, SA1
Description
A man from Neath Port Talbot has been jailed for multiple child sexual offences.
Gareth Phillips, 32, from Skewen, had sex with his then-14-year-old victim in his car in March 2019. Two months later, he began meeting the same victim for sex on a regular basis. In November 2019, they made their relationship ‘official’ – but Phillips asked the victim to keep this a secret.
In May 2021, Phillips raped the same victim while staying at a hotel.
He has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison at Swansea Crown Court after being convicted of four counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of rape.