THE son of a Brit grandad accused of trying to drown his own daughter-in-law was jailed for running over his father with an £80,000 Porsche.
Alex Gibbon, 34, pleaded guilty to assaulting his father back in 2023 – two years after the dad-of-two separated from Jasmine Wyld, 33.
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Mark Gibbon, 62, is currently in jail after being charged with attempted murder after he allegedly forced Wyld’s head underwater at a Florida resort pool as the pair argued over his will.
Wyld is the ex-wife of Alex with the former couple sharing two children together.
Gibbon is now embroiled in a separate family falling out involving Wyld.
The pair were on holiday at the Solterra Resort in Devenport, near Disney World, Florida with the two children.
Gibbon and Wyld soon began arguing over the “stipulations of his will” around a pool, according to US police.
The granddad then pushed Jasmine’s head “under the water and held her down multiple times”, according to the arrest affidavit.
She told cops after the ordeal she “could not breathe and believed that she was going to drown,” according to Polk’s County Sheriff’s Office.
According to deputies, Jasmine was forced to “fight Mark in order to get away from him and from under the water but he kept pushing her back under”.
Her nine-year-old daughter then tried to help despite having no idea what was going on as she leapt into the water to her mother’s defence
She tried desperately to intervene, but Gibbon allegedly kept pushing her away.
Jasmine spotted some two women in the distance and screamed at them to call 911.
Gibbon is said to have stopped only when the sisters said they were calling the sheriff’s office.
He now faces one count of attempted murder and two counts of battery.
When questioned, Gibbon allegedly admitted to pushing Jasmine underwater, but insisted he hadn’t been trying to drown her.
He claimed they had been drinking, began arguing and that she slapped him – which triggered the fight, reports Law & Crime.
Gibbon is a lighting technician, who runs his own firm called MRG Lighting.
He has worked on music videos for Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and Paloma Faith, according to his website, as well as on film and TV sets.
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