Uni boss jailed for sex assaults on sleeping women
BBCA former Durham University director who sexually assaulted two sleeping women has been jailed.
Andrew Harston had denied four charges, claiming the sex was consensual, but was convicted following a trial at Teesside Crown Court.
Ian Lowther, from the Crown Prosecution Service, described Harston as a "sexual predator".
Harston, 39, of Kirkwood Drive, Durham, was sentenced to 14 years in prison and made subject to an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.
Mr Lowther said: "In both cases, the victims awoke to the terrifying experience of finding Harston in the process of carrying out sexual assaults upon them.
"Throughout the course of this trial, Andrew Harston has tried to minimise his responsibility for these attacks, falsely claiming that any sexual activity with his victims was entirely consensual."
He said the case proved "neither victims possessed the capacity to give informed consent to sexual activity at the time he carried out these attacks" and "there was no way that Harston could have reasonably believed that they had".