High-risk offender was released from jail just days before attack in Halifax

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A man who is accused of attacking three women during two separate incidents in Halifax had been released from custody on unrelated charges just days before.Gamon Jay Leacock, 49, is facing numerous charges, including aggravated sexual assault, unlawful confinement, robbery, and breaking and entering, after two women were sexually assaulted at a home Monday.According to Halifax Regional Police, a man entered a home on Clifton Street in Halifax and confronted two women with a brick and a broken bottle before confining them in a bedroom and sexually assaulting them. They managed to escape, and the man was arrested shortly after.Just before the home invasion, police also investigated a carjacking incident that they allege involved the same suspect.

A woman was threatened, assaulted and robbed after picking the suspect up.Leacock was just a few months out of prison and had been described by police as a high-risk offender.In October 2023, police notified the public that he was residing in the community after completing a 14-year sentence for numerous offences that included robbery, sexual assault with a weapon, forcible confinement and administering a noxious thing.The sentence stemmed from a 2009 attack at a home in Montreal, in which Leacock tied up a man and sexually assaulted a woman over the course of several hours.A 2021 Parole Board of Canada decision determined at the time that Leacock was too high-risk to be released from prison. It outlined instances of him owning a shank while in prison, threatening to stab an officer and behaving aggressively toward female staff.On Jan.