Repeat violent offender back in custody after 1 week
An offender with a history of violence against women has been re-arrested in Ottawa, less than a week after completing a five-year prison term in Alberta.
Jean Guy Tremblay, 41, was picked up in the city's west end at 10:30 Tuesday morning.
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Jean Guy Tremblay. (File
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Corrections Canada issued an arrest warrant after Tremblay failed to comply with at least one condition of his long-term supervision order.
Police aren't saying which condition he violated, citing privacy laws.
Tremblay made national headlines in 1989 when he went to the Supreme Court of Canada in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent Chantal Daigle, a former girlfriend from Quebec, from having an abortion.
In 1999, he was convicted for attacks on two girlfriends in Calgary.
That was the latest in a series of 14 convictions for beating, stalking and choking women in Quebec and Alberta, in incidents dating back 16 years.
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Tremblay had been living at a halfway house in Ottawa since his release from the Bowden Institution in Alberta on June 30, after he'd completed his latest five-year prison sentence.
Among the conditions the National Parole Board attached to his release:
- He must undergo psychological counselling.
- He must not contact his victims or their families.
- He must inform his parole office of any relationship he has with a woman.
- He must live at a community correctional centre or community residential centre for 90 days.
After the Provincial Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement Squad picked him up Tuesday, Tremblay was brought to the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Detention Centre, where he is being held.