Police ScotlandA man who sexually assaulted a woman with a crowbar and raped a second victim while she was sleeping has been jailed.
First offender Kyle Kernachan, 28, attacked both of his victims at separate locations in Edinburgh.
Kernachan, of Lochgelly, in Fife, denied a series of charges during a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.
He was found guilty of carrying out a penetrative assault using a crowbar or similar instrument on his first victim at Silverknowes Beach, on an occasion between February 2015 and October 2016.
Kernachan was also convicted of raping another woman in January 2017 at an address in the Granton area of Edinburgh when she was intoxicated, asleep and incapable of giving consent.
Kernachan was acquitted of a further rape charge alleging he assaulted a sleeping woman on a not proven verdict.
A judge told him after the verdicts were returned: “You have been convicted of a serious sexual assault and separately of rape against two different women.”
Lady Haldane concluded that an eight-year term was appropriate in the circumstances.
He was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life.
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