A CONVICTED child rapist has appeared in court again less than a month after being jailed for more than eight years for further offences.

Peter Gibbs, 60,  was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on March 20 of three counts of historic child sex abuse which happened in the early 2000s – two counts of indecent assault and one count of rape – after being found guilty at trial.

Over two decades later, Gibbs, pleaded guilty to one count each of sexual communication with a child and making indecent images of a child after six naked photographs were found of the teen on his device in 2022.

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The former school bus driver, of Briary Lane, Carterton, was sentenced to eight years and year months imprisonment.

However, Gibbs appeared at the same court again on Wednesday (April 10) for three counts of breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).

He was placed on the order on November 1, 2022 after he pleaded guilty to the later offences and was awaiting trial for the historic charges which he denied.

Prosecutor Stefan Weidman, for the Crown Prosecution Service, told the court he is unsure why the breaches were not dealt with during the sentencing in March.

“These three offences for reasons unknown were not dealt with on that date,” he said. “So he falls to be sentenced for three breaches of a SHPO.

“He admitted these offences in interview…he had a SHPO which he brazenly flouted.”

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Judge Nigel Daly said: “I’ve in mind eight months imprisonment on each count and that would be concurrent to the sentence he is presently serving.”

During the sentencing, it was heard that the historic counts were first reported to police in August 2001 after the victim made a report, telling her GP she had been raped.

It was heard the assaults had happened in his car as well as on a bus where he worked as a driver.

However, the Crown Prosecution Service dismissed the case.

Gibbs was not charged at the time but was arrested again in February 2021 when a school reported that Gibbs, who was the authority’s bus driver at the time, had been messaging a 15-year-old student.

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Defending Gibbs during sentencing, his barrister explained that the defendant has not been ‘eating, drinking or taking medication’ in custody and has been placed on ‘a particular watch’.

He said: “He is very, very sorry for what he’s done and he’s remorseful for his actions.

"The man has fully, completely and totally come to his senses and has expressed his great sorrow and shame to his partner.”