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image captionKary Thanapalan repeatedly grabbed the woman s breasts and kissed her
A university lecturer has been jailed for sexually assaulting a student as she walked home from a pub.
Kary Thanapalan, 49, grabbed the woman s breasts and kissed her after she left the Rickard Arms in Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taf, in November 2020.
Thanapalan, of Egypt Street, Treforest, lost his job at the University of South Wales after the assault.
He pleaded guilty to sexual assault and was sentenced to two years at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday.
The court was told the victim was not a student of the defendant and did not attend the university where he worked as a senior lecturer of aeronautical and mechanical engineering .
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