A WA cultural leader has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two women in Broome.

Thomas Edgar, 68, faced a District Court on two counts of sexual penetration without consent this week after pleading not guilty to two incidents in 2021 and 2022.

The court was told the first incident took place at a Broome property in 2021, where a young woman who was staying there, woke up to him sexually assaulting her.

The woman said she was intoxicated at the time of the assault.

On September 17, 2022, a second woman who was staying with Edgar at his property, woke up in pain during the early hours of the morning as he lay next to her, the court was then told.

The woman told a triple-zero operator she had been drinking and said: “I think I’ve been touched in my sleep.”

Edgar pleaded not guilty to the second incident on January 23 last year.

During a four-day trial, the court heard evidence from a number of witnesses including police officers who attended the incidents and hospital staff who treated the victims.

In his defence Edgar submitted he had sexually penetrated both women, felt he was a victim as he testified the women had both initiated the sexual acts.

A jury found Edgar, who is a director on the Yawuru Prescribed Body Corporate, guilty on both counts of sexual assault yesterday afternoon and he was remanded in custody until sentencing on April 18.