Police to supervise sex-trade attacker
Winnipeg police have won a rare post-prison supervision order against a man about to be freed for stabbing a city sex-trade worker in the back with a butcher knife.
Dino Sankovic appeared in a Winnipeg courtroom Wednesday where he consented to a judicially-sanctioned peace bond order allowing police and probation officers to closely watch his movements over the next two years.
Sankovic’s four-year, six-month sentence for aggravated assault and other crimes fully expires Sunday and he will be able to walk away from the city halfway house where he’s currently residing.
Police and officials with Manitoba Justice believe Sankovic is likely to reoffend violently unless he’s monitored.
The 40-year-old is expected to move to Ottawa where he will live under 16 stringent conditions, including staying away from drugs, alcohol, bars and the sex-trade, provincial court Judge John Guy’s order states. He must also report any romantic relationships to authorities.
He must immediately check in with an Ottawa Police Service detective on arrival in that city, according to the peace bond.
Sankovic was out on bail pending trial for assault in July 2006 when he violently attacked a sex-trade worker, according to Parole Board of Canada documents.
“When she walked down the hallway in [an] attempt to leave, you grabbed a butcher knife and stabbed her once in the back,” PBC board members David Scott and Sharon Perrault wrote late last year in their decision to give Sankovic a second shot at statutory release after the first attempt failed.
The victim was hospitalized and still has a scar from the stabbing, the board noted.
Sankovic has convictions dating back more than 25 years for a range of offences.
“Past assaults of strangers and acquaintances, personality disorder with anger, impulsiveness, past sexual jealousy and past use of weapons or credible death threats were identified as critical items in your cases, inferring that the presence of any of these items alone cause you to be an imminent risk for family violence in the future,” the parole board states.
The board noted that at points while behind bars, Sankovic has spent time in maximum-security facilities, but was able to be graduated into medium-security cells after a time.
The board also noted an incident where Sankovic burned a correctional officer badly by throwing coffee. The guard suffered first and second degree burns.
