The Western University peeping Tom is finally going to be sentenced — but not until September, two years after he was found guilty.

Bradley Priestap, 49, was convicted in August 2013 of 12 charges for a string of frightening prowling incidents in a student neighbourhood near the university gates in September 2012.

His targets were young women, all who had long blond hair. Priestap followed them, peeked in windows, jiggled doorknobs and, in one case, stood over a bed while two women were sleeping.

At his trial, the Crown suggested he had been prowling in the area for weeks.

London police were following Priestap on the night he was arrested. Officers watched him look in windows and enter backyards of several properties.

When Priestap took the stand, he denied breaking into a house and taking photos of a sleeping woman. He said he didn’t take photos of another woman through her window as she undressed.

The judge didn’t buy Priestap’s explanation that he was in the neighbourhood looking for an amateur porn producer who had ripped him off.

After Priestap’s convictions, he parted ways with his lawyer and hadn’t found anyone else.

Meanwhile the Crown, seeking either a dangerous offender or long-term offender designation, went ahead with a psychiatric assessment of Priestap required for the sentencing application.

Legal Aid Ontario denied Priestap money for a lawyer. Until Thursday, Priestap still didn’t officially have a lawyer.

But Superior Court Justice Andrew Goodman, who has stick-handled scheduling the case for Justice Thomas Carey since the convictions, granted Priestap’s request to the court for legal funding and appointed lawyer Daniel Brodsky from Toronto to act for him.

Unlike other court appearances when he has complained about jail conditions and his inability to find counsel, Priestap stayed silent.

The lengthy delay to sentencing is primarily to co-ordinate the schedules of the Windsor-based judge, the lawyers and the psychiatrist. Three weeks of trial time has been set aside for sentencing starting Sept. 7.

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