EX-BRIGHTON TEEN STAR GETS 18YRS IN JAIL FOR RAPE

A ONCE-PROMISING footballer who showed no remorse for raping two girls and a vulnerable woman has been jailed for 18 years.

- BY DAN WARBURTON

Sahil Ali, 21, signed for Brighton and Hove Albion as a schoolboy and had spells at Millwall and Barnet.

He attacked two girls, aged 15 and 17, and a woman aged 29, whose mental age was a lot younger, between 2022 and last year in car parks, a court heard.

Ali was found guilty of seven rapes, intentional strangulation and serious sexual assault. In addition to jail time he was given a further five years on licence for dangerousness and put on the sex offender register indefinitely.