For raping a young teenage girl in a Hove park, David Berbers was sentenced to eleven years behind bars.
On the evening of Sunday, 25 July 2021, David Berbers, 21, of Byatt Walk in Richmond upon Thames, attacked his victim, a girl under the age of sixteen, at St Ann’s Well Gardens.
He had set aside time to see her following their social media correspondence.
He raped her after advising them to stroll across the park, then left the scene, leaving her to ask local people for assistance.
Medical experts and specialist police agents helped her; an urgent inquiry was started.
Berbers’s Instagram account and the phone number he used to contact the victim helped identify him, and she thoroughly described him.
Three days later, on July 28, 2021, he was detained in London following urgent enquiries.
Later, he was accused of rape of a sixteen-year-old girl in connection to the Hove incident.
Under separate Metropolitan Police investigations, Berbers was also charged with two counts of rape and attempted rape, as well as with possession of severe pornography.
He was found guilty of three charges of rape and one count of attempted rape by a jury at Kingston Crown Court on Monday, December 4. He admitted guilt of possessing severe pornography.
Berbers was sentenced to 11 years and issued a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order at the same court on Friday, February 16.