A RAPIST jailed for assault of teenage girl has received a second jail sentence for the stabbing of a man which occurred hours before the sexual offence.
Jacquani Phillips was jailed for eight and a half years in May 2022 after filming the rape of a teenager on October 10, 2021, near Bicester.
The 22-year-old, of Ploughley Road, Ambrosden, was sentenced again at Oxford Crown Court on February 2 for stabbing a teenager twice earlier that same night.
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Karl Gibbs, who was 19 at the time, was stabbed twice after a fight with Phillips in Sheep Street and Market Square in Bicester.
Three other men, Clayton Moiloa, 28, Jomo Gordon, 41, and Phillips’s father Dayle, 43, were also sentenced in connection with the offence.
Phillips, who pleaded guilty to wounding with intent and possession of a blade, was handed a six year sentence.
The court heard that Mr Gibbs had been out celebrating is friend's birthday.
He had been in the Shotz Pool and Sports Bar in Crown Walk watching a boxing match where the defendants were also present.
There was no trouble between the two groups but when the men left the bar in the early hours of the morning, an argument broke out and Mr Gibbs was stabbed twice.
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He told police he could ‘not recall’ what happened but remembers ‘struggling to breathe’. He said he felt at one point he ‘should have let himself die’.
The young man was taken to John Radcliffe Hospital in Headington for three days where he underwent two procedures for a 15cm stab wound to the left side of his chest and a 3cm wound to the right side of his back.
His lung was visible through his chest wound but he made a full recovery.
Since the incident, Mr Gibbs has not been located by police and has not made a victim impact statement in court.
In a written note to the judge, Phillips said: “I’m not really someone who talks much but I do want to say sorry for what happened. That day I wasn’t myself. I was drunk and heated.”
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Moiloa, of no fixed abode, received six months for assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
The court heard he was ‘very apologetic’ and had online kicked Mr Gibbs once.
Gordon, of Ploughley Road, Ambrosden, received three years in jail for one count each of affray and possession with intent to supply Class A drugs. His defence barrister states he was ‘out of sight’ when the incident took place.
Phillips’s father, of Manorsfield Road, Bicester, received 12 weeks suspended for 24 months for one count of common assault.
Though he had kicked Mr Gibbs, his defence barrister said that he had tried to get others ‘move away’ from the victim.
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