A man charged last week with killing a London sex worker was accused earlier this year of assaulting at least one other, and was under a court order not to seek paid sexual services, The Free Press has learned.

But London sex workers say they received no warning from police of a dangerous situation in the city, with someone potentially targeting them free on bail and under conditions not to seek their services.

“We were not given the heads up by the police,” a representative of SafeSpace, a collective of sex workers and allies, said Friday.

London police said they can’t comment on the issue because of a court-ordered publication ban on evidence.

Oluwatobi Boyede, 25, was charged last week with second-degree murder in the death of Josephine (Josie) Glenn, 26, whose remains were found in his family’s home in southeast London.



Josie Glenn

At the time of Glenn’s death, Boyede was supposed to be complying with bail conditions set down for him in a London court on April 26 when he was released from custody, charged with two counts of assault, and one count of sexual assault, choking and forcible confinement involving two other women.

Court documents show he was ordered released on $2,000 bail with two sureties — his mother and his sister.

There were nine specific conditions, one of which ordered Boyede to “not contact or communicate with any individual for paid sexual services.”

That bail condition applied to both sets of charges against Boyede, suggesting both women were sex workers.

A publication ban was placed on any evidence at the bail hearing and on the name of the woman who said she had been sexually assaulted.

The Free Press has independently learned that woman was a sex worker.

Boyede, who made a brief court appearance by video in London on Friday, was arrested after some of Glenn’s remains were found on Oct. 26 at the residence he shared with his family in southeast London at 252 Leakside Circle.

Glenn, 26, was last seen on Oct. 22, at Clarke Road and Culver Drive in the city’s east end about 3 a.m., about one block from Sweet City massage parlour where she worked under the name Sabrina.

An online classified ad, posted at backpage.com on Oct. 21, pointed to her working at the body rub parlour at 1:27 a.m Oct. 22.

During his court appearance Friday, Boyede recited his name and birthdate before entering into a private phone discussion on the courtroom telephone with Zeyad Halbouni, a paralegal who works with Boyede’s defence lawyer, Keli Mersereau.

His next court appearance by video on the second-degree murder charge, along with a charge of offering an indignity to a dead body, was set for Nov. 10.

An Ontario Court preliminary hearing on his other charges has already been set for March 5. He will make a separate video court appearance on those charges on Nov. 24.

While Halbouni and assistant Crown attorney Roger Dietrich sorted out the upcoming court date with the justice of the peace, Boyede, dressed in the standard jail-issued orange jumpsuit, said nothing.

At one point, he yawned.

The court documents detailing Boyede’s other charges offer some glimpse into his interaction with the justice system earlier this year.

He was arrested and charged with assaulting a woman on Feb. 26 and was released from London police headquarters on a promise to appear later in court.

He was re-arrested on March 2 and taken into custody, charged with sexual assault, forcible confinement, choking and assault on a different woman.

That woman was a sex worker.

The Crown chose to proceed by indictment — an indication that the charges were considered more serious.

Boyede remained in custody until April 26 when he was recommended for release by the Crown with sureties and specific bail conditions.

They included orders to live at the family home on Leaksdale Circle and to remain in the house between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., unless travelling to work or with one of his sureties.

He was ordered not to communicate with either complainant, not to be within 100 metres of their homes, work or school and not to be within 25 metres of them.

Boyede was not to possess any weapons and “not be outside with alcohol in your body.”

He was prohibited from attending any business licensed to sell alcohol.

And the final condition was not to seek out paid sexual services.

Boyede was re-arrested on July 30 for allegedly breaching the curfew condition.

He was released again by the police on a promise to appear in court.

London police have been draining a stormwater retention pond near the Boyede home in the Summerside subdivision in connection with the investigation.

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Oluwatobi Boyede chronology

Feb. 26:Oluwatobi Boyede charged with assault of a woman, released to appear in court later.

March 2: Re-arrested, charged with sexual assault, forcible confinement, choking and assault of another woman in February.

April 26:Released with sureties and specific bail conditions.

July 30: Re-arrested for alleged curfew violation, released again.

Oct. 28:Charged with second-degree murder in death of Josephine (Josie) Glenn, 26.