Breaking into a home and sexually assaulting two women in Carmacks has put Paul Roberts behind bars for six months.

The Carmacks man was sentenced for his crimes in Yukon Supreme Court last month.

On Aug. 18, 2003, the two women he had assaulted were drinking at the bar at the Carmacks Hotel with two men.

At 2 a.m., the group left the bar, drove around Carmacks and arrived at one of the men's homes to continue drinking, court heard.

One of the men left to go home.

At 5 a.m., one of the women decided to spend the night and went to sleep in a bedroom.

Shortly after she did so, Roberts came into the house and joined the remaining group, who were still drinking alcohol.

Roberts eventually left the house, but before departing, he propositioned the second woman, asking her to come with him. She refused.

At 7 a.m., the homeowner left the house to go to a babysitting job. He gave the second woman a key and told her to lock up when she and her friend left.

The second woman fell asleep on the couch. While the two women slept, Roberts returned, crawling in through a window in the back of the house that led to a spare room used for storage.

The accused went to the couch where the second woman was sleeping and lay down beside her, rubbing her vagina with his hand over top of her jeans while she slept.

The woman woke up and began kicking him until he was off the couch.

When she asked him what he was doing, he said he didn't want to sleep on the floor.

Shortly after Roberts left, the woman heard screaming coming from the bedroom where her friend was sleeping.

The 42-year-old man had slipped beneath the covers with the other woman and began rubbing her groin area over her clothes.

The woman elbowed Roberts and he got up and left. He then came back into the room and stood over the bed.

The woman shouted at him to leave and he did.

She then got out of bed and checked the house to make sure he was gone before she went back to her own home.

The second woman on the couch later left the residence after she woke up, having fallen back asleep after the attack.

'Mr. Roberts claims that he really has no memory of this,' said his lawyer, Gord Coffin. Roberts had been on a combination of alcohol and drugs at the time, his lawyer added.

Roberts only pleaded guilty after the preliminary hearing, when the judge heard evidence to decide if there was reason to go to trial.

It was at that time Roberts finally acknowledged the event actually happened, said Coffin.

A pre-sentence report written about Roberts noted that the accused showed no remorse, other than he acknowledged he has an alcohol problem.

Although Roberts has a lengthy criminal record, dating back to 1983, he has never sought out alcohol counselling, said Crown prosecutor John Phelps.

Roberts only recently stopped drinking after he was told he could die if he keeps it up, said Coffin.

On Jan. 12, Supreme Court Justice Ross Goodwin sentenced Roberts to six months in jail to be followed by an 18-month probation period.

He said the tough sentence was to show the community of Carmacks that such behaviour is not acceptable.

One of the victims was sitting in the courtroom while Roberts was sentenced.