Rapist snared after mum of teenage victim turned sleuth

A SERIAL sex fiend who plied women and girls with sedatives before raping and abusing them was caught after one teenager's mum turned detective.

- Paul Jeeves

Shane Gibbs, 35, took two youngsters aged 15 and 16 to a hotel where he gave them drugs and alcohol before attacking them, a court heard.

The parents of the pair reported their daughters missing just before last Christmas when one of the mothers who shared a cloud account with her daughter received graphic pictures taken at Brighton Marina.

They showed a man and drugs and a shot of one of the girls "in a sexual position with the man behind her".

Unconscious

Both teenagers returned home on Christmas Eve but went missing again three days later.