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This is not the first time the Regina Police Service has issued a public warning about Thorne. He was previously released into the neighbourhood in August 2018, but breached one of his non-sexual conditions a month later.

In 2012, Thorne was released from custody to live in the Heritage neighbourhood, but was only briefly out of custody before he breached his conditions by not returning to his residence, and then turned himself in to police.

In 2013, he was again living in Regina when he breached his long-term offender supervision order by buying a bottle of alcohol and guzzling it an alley — police were keeping close tabs on him and watched him doing it before arresting him. In October 2013, Thorne was sentenced to five years in prison for that breach, with the sentencing judge noting that alcohol and drug consumption is often at the heart of Thorne’s offending.

In 2008, Thorne was the subject of a Canada-wide warrant when he failed to return to his residence. He was located and arrested a day later.

The police issued Friday’s advisory under the Saskatchewan Public Disclosure Act, and the information “is intended to enable members of the public to take suitable preventative measures, not to embark upon any form of vigilantism or other unreasonable conduct directed at this individual.”

Thorne is subject to a long-term supervision order, with conditions that include advising his parole supervisor of any change in residence or occupation and not possessing any weapons. He must also report all intimate relationships or changes to his parole supervisor, abstain from alcohol and illicit drugs and follow psychological and psychiatric counselling.