'Something in him that is scary': Man accused of murdering Manitoba woman has sex assault history in B.C.

Eight years after the killing of a Manitoba woman in 2007, the Vancouver man now accused in her death pleaded guilty to choking two B.C. women in a pair of attacks that left both victims fearing for their lives.

According to court documents obtained by CBC, Kevin Charles Queau was sentenced in August 2015 to five years in prison in after admitting to the aggravated sexual assault of one woman and the aggravated assault of another.

One of his victims said she was sexually assaulted for up to five hours, beaten to a point where “her nose was bleeding, her lips were black and there was blood and discoloration on her teeth.”

Despite having a name and a photograph, Krupa said police didn’t locate Queau until December 2014, when his DNA ultimately turned up in relation to the second incident.