A Perth man has been sentenced to 13½ years in jail for the horrific and terrifying rape of two young women 35 years ago.

Kevin Frederick Combes, 56, was arrested last year after investigative genealogy techniques linked him to the sexual assault of a 17-year-old woman in Kalgoorlie in 1991 and a 19-year-old woman in Perth CBD in 1990.

Kevin Combes leaving Perth Magistrates Court last year. Credit: Nine News

The then 19-year-old victim, who was present in court on Thursday, was leaving a bar on Barrack Street just after midnight in June 1990 when she was grabbed and taken into a dark alleyway where a knife was pressed against her throat.

She was told to take off her clothes and lie on her stomach before she was raped.

Combes, then aged 20, then said to the woman “if you scream I’l

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