A MAN has been jailed for seven years over a historical sexual assault more than 16 years ago.
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Stanley Joseph Lamb, 37, was charged with the violent rape of a 54-year-old woman in Collarenebri after a cold case review by investigators.
On June 2, 1998, Lamb and another man entered a Church St home before Lamb sexually assaulted the woman inside the home and fled the scene shortly after.
The incident was reported to police at the time and an investigation was launched. However, detectives weren’t able to identify the men responsible.
After a cold case review, fresh evidence came to light in 2013 and Castlereagh detectives made an arrest, charging Lamb on January 9, last year.
He was charged with the historical aggravated break-and-enter and aggravated sexual assault and has been in custody since.
A brief of evidence was compiled by investigators before Lamb denied the charges in Walgett Local Court last year, and was committed for trial.
In an arraignment in Dubbo District Court earlier this year, Lamb pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated sexual assault inflicting actual bodily harm on a victim, with a second charge also taken into account in sentencing.
During a sentencing hearing last week in Dubbo District Court, Judge Gordon Lerve found despite the time had passed, the incident warranted a term of imprisonment.
He sentenced Lamb to a period of seven years and two months in prison, with a non-parole period of four-and-a-half years.
The sentence was dated back to April, 2013, meaning Lamb will be eligible for parole in October, 2017.