Edwin Cuschieri, aged 67, of Helliar Way, Shapinsay, Orkney, was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment at the High Court in Edinburgh after being found guilty of six charges, including rapes, sexual assaults, and indecent assaults against women and children spanning nearly three decades.
The court heard that the offences took place across Orkney between 1988 and 2016. Cuschieri’s first victim was an adult woman who was subjected to repeated rapes at multiple addresses between 1988 and 1994, during which she was pulled by her hair and subjected to derogatory abuse.
Between 1997 and 2001, Cuschieri raped a young child aged eight or nine at a residential property on one of the Orkney islands.
Further offences occurred in Kirkwall between 2014 and 2016, where Cuschieri subjected a 50-year-old woman to unwanted touching, aggressive physical contact, and explicit threats. In August 2016, Cuschieri attacked and molested another woman at a property in Kirkwall. A subsequent forensic examination recovered DNA matching Cuschieri from the victim’s bra.
Following a High Court trial, a jury found Cuschieri guilty of six counts of sexual offences.
The presiding judge sentenced Cuschieri to 10 years’ imprisonment and ordered that he remain on the sex offenders register for life.
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