A Brighton man faces jail for raping two women.
Stephen Edwards, 48, of Merevale, in Hollingdean, was convicted of raping Pauline Jenkins, 46, at her home in Woodingdean.
A jury convicted Edwards after a three-week trial at Hove Crown Court.
Pauline Jenkins was found dead at her home in Rosebery Avenue, Woodingdean, on Saturday 5 February 2011, the morning after Edwards attacked her.
He was arrested by Sussex Police.
Michael Warren, prosecuting, told the court that Pauline Jenkins had so much alcohol in her blood that she could not possibly have consented to sex.
Post-mortem tests suggested that she died from alcohol poisoning and had a blood alcohol count of 458 at the time of her death.
Edwards cried as he described waking up in her front room, calling an ambulance and realising that she was dead.
The family of Pauline Jenkins watched with dignity from the public balcony throughout the trial.
They listened as Edwards was accused of raping a 51-year-old woman at his Brighton flat between Wednesday 30 June and Sunday 1 August 2010.
The jury cleared him of raping the woman who cannot be named for legal reasons.
The woman did not accuse Edwards of rape until she read about the death of Pauline Jenkins, a mother of three.
Nick Valios, Edwards’s defence counsel, said that at the time the other woman was seeing Edwards, she had told her doctor and her mental health carer that her sex life was improving.
The defendant admitted that he had been abusive towards her after they stopped seeing each other. He left her unpleasant voicemails and sent her nasty text messages.
He stopped communicating with her when she was in Mill View Hospital in Hangleton.
He had met both women through the Plenty of Fish dating website.
