A FORMER Oxford Brookes student who sexually assaulted a woman on a nightclub dance floor has been jailed for 13 months.

Former planning and property student Fred Edwards will also be placed on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.

The 21-year-old, of Cowley Road, East Oxford, is already serving a year-long sentence after being convicted last month for punching a Spanish student so hard he fractured his jaw, also while on a night out.

He was unanimously convicted on Thursday of one count of sexual assault after a four-day trial at Oxford Crown Court and was sentenced yesterday.

During the trial, the jury of six men and six women heard Edwards had been at the O2 Academy in Cowley Road, East Oxford, in the early hours of November 3 with fellow university rugby club members.

They were attending the club’s weekly ‘Fishy Fingers’ sports party night.

CCTV footage showed Edwards and the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, dancing together.

They then shared a kiss and he lifted her up before sexually assaulting her.

During the trial she told the court: “He grabbed me and then he went under my leotard.

“His right arm was still holding me.

“I pushed him and struggled to get down.

“I pushed him and kicked him; I said a few swear words.”

The woman then raced off to the toilets after the attack and began ‘heaving’, she told the court, before leaving with a friend.

The incident was first reported to a security guard at the venue and Edwards was later identified by police.

Edwards claimed he did not remember the event but denied any assault had taken place.

He will serve the sentence consecutive to his current one-year sentence for grievous bodily harm.