RAPISTS, paedophiles, an abusive pensioner and a drug dealer were among those sent to prison in March.

Andrew Ford was found guilty of the rape and coercive control of one woman in Brighton and admitted attempting to rape another woman in Royal Pavilion Gardens.

The 23-year-old, formerly of Bramble Way, Stanmer Heights, was sent to prison for 20 years after Judge David Rennie branded the sex attacks “brutal and sickening”.

Judge Rennie praised both victims’ courage in coming forward to get justice.

Meanwhile 45-year-old David Jani was also jailed for rape. He was sentenced to 16 years for attacking a 25-year-old woman at his flat in Shelley Road, Worthing.

Paedophile Neville Crouch was sentenced to 21 years behind bars for historic sex attacks on young girls in Sussex. The 63-year-old, of Preston, Lancashire, was a taxi driver during the 1980s and early 1990s when he sexually abused the girls.

Meanwhile Eastbourne labourer Terry Stacey, 32, was jailed for 16 years for the “systematic” abuse of two young girls over a three-year period. His offences included raping girls under 16.

Former private school teacher Jeremy Fow was jailed for three years for filming boys in the showers at schools in Sussex.

The unemployed 53-year-old admitted voyeurism, possessing indecent images of children, and making indecent images of children.

Fow, of Leeds, had worked at Windlesham House School in Pulborough when offences took place in 2013.

More recently police were called to deal with 65-year-old Peter Davy who was spouting homophobic abuse at his neighbour and spitting through a letterbox.

Davy, of Albion Street, Brighton, spat at police when they arrived and said: “I’m going to kill you, I’m infected with coronavirus.”

District Judge Amanda Kelly said Davy’s behaviour was “despicable” at a time of national crisis over coronavirus and jailed him or three months.

Drug dealer James Elliott was stopped by police on the A22 near East Grinstead and inside his car officers found nearly £100,000 worth of amphetamines.

Elliott, 39, of Hedley Way, Hailsham, was jailed for three years and four months for possessing the class B drug with intent to supply.

Anthony Black appeared in court for burgling a Post Office at Preston Drove, Brighton.

The 31-year-old, of Percival Terrace, Brighton, was jailed for five months.