A SEX attacker who pounced on a 23-year-old music teacher with intent to rape her after she got off a late- night bus has been jailed for four years.
At the High Court in Glasgow, judge Lady Rae told 21-year-old Pole Sebastian Staniewski: "This must have been a terrifying ordeal for your victim.
"You appear in my view to have decided to follow a young woman who alighted from a bus and was making her way home.
"She was a complete stranger to you and you attacked her on the street and forced her to accompany you and sexually assaulted her.
"Had it not been for her shouts of help and the intervention of members of the public you would in all probability been appearing on an even more serious charge."
A risk assessment on Staniewski found he posed a serious risk to the public.
Lady Rae ordered him to be monitored in the community for three years after his release from jail.
Staniewski pounced on his victim in Edinburgh's Leith area on April 14.
He remained at large for weeks until police released footage of the man they believed could be the culprit.
A colleague identified him and it led to the kitchen porter being arrested.
In court he pled guilty to a charge of assault with intent to rape.
Staniewski grabbed his victim as she walked in Edinburgh's Henderson Street. He put his hand over her mouth, then held her in a headlock, but she struggled and managed to punch him in the crotch.
Her ordeal eventually ended when a witness heard what was happening and the Pole fled.
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