Justice Felix Cacchione handed down his sentencing decision for James Duncan Keats in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax on Thursday. While the judge gave Keats a 30-month sentence for sexually assaulting the two women, he ruled it should run concurrently with a four-year sentence Keats is already serving for raping a 71-year-old woman in the Annapolis Valley. In December, a jury found Keats guilty of two more sexual assaults involving patients, but his sentencing was delayed for various reasons until this week. Concurrent sentencesCacchione said Thursday that since the two groping incidents occurred before the rape, he had to sentence Keats as if for a first-time offence. Keats' first sentence of four years expires on Oct. 25, 2019; under that sentence he could be eligible for full parole in February 2017.

Source: CBC News October 20, 2016 11:07 UTC