A dad in Plymouth, who was aged in his 40s, has been jailed for 18 months after whipping his 15-year-old son with a television cable and screaming homophobic abuse at him.
The attack happened after the dad discovered Grindr on his son’s phone. The dad, who pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm, is unnamed to protect his son’s identity.
The Plymouth Herald reports that the dad made his son strip to his underwear before whipping him twenty times with a television cable.
As he whipped him, he shouted “You are gay” and “you are a woman” as well as shouting “What’s that between your legs?” Francesca Whebell for the Crown Prosecution Service, said that the son was “exploring his sexuality” and that the father had discovered