A "disgusting" father who hired a prostitute for his 13-year-old son and called the child a "p***y" for refusing to have sex with her has been jailed for four years.
The 39-year-old former company director also offered cocaine to his teenage son during what was meant to be a night to "cheer him up" at a hotel in Bromley, south London.
The incident came to light after the horrified boy told his mother, who immediately reported it to police.
Speaking from her home in the Home Counties, the boy's mother condemned her ex-partner's actions.
The horrified boy told his mother about the ordeal - who immediately reported it to police
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"He's an absolutely disgusting man," she said. "There are so many bad things that he's done.
"I don't want to speak about him for the sake of the children," she added.
A source close to the family told the Mail: "What that man did is just the most unbelievable thing you can imagine - unless you know him in which case it's not that surprising at all."
The boy had reluctantly been allowed to spend a night with his father at a hotel in Bromley, south London.
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The 'disgusting' dad was jailed at Croydon Crown Court
Upon arrival, his father immediately told him "I've bought a brass" and offered him cocaine.
When the youngster refused to take drugs or have sex with the woman, his father responded by calling him a "p***y".
The dad later tried to justify his actions in court, claiming: "It was only because he was feeling down because he'd broken up with his girlfriend and he said he'd done all that stuff before."
At Croydon Crown Court, Judge Antony Hyams-Parish praised the boy's bravery for reporting the incident to his mother.
"He seems to be a very bright, intelligent and very sensible young man," the judge said. "He should feel no guilt whatsoever. He was the more sensible person in all of this."
The father was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to arranging a child sex offence.
He will be placed on the sex offenders register and be subject to a sexual harm prevention order for ten years.
Sources described the father as a "complete yob" and a "jack-the-lad" who previously ran a business with his ex-partner.
"He's a physically fit man who always claimed to love his kids and his family," one source said.
"But despite the foreign holidays and trips to the park, he was more interested in going to the pub and getting out of it."
The couple separated two years ago after the mother "had had enough."
The father insisted in court that he was a "good father" with a "good heart," saying: "On paper I must sound like an absolute reprobate - but that's not the case at all."
