A violent sexual offender with a slew of convictions, including for choking and raping a woman, assaulting fellow inmates and threatening law enforcement, has served his time and is expected to take up residence in Winnipeg, according to police. Article content

In a warning to the community late last week , the Manitoba Integrated High Risk Sex Offender Unit said Jason Mark Bard, 35, had been released from the Winnipeg Remand Centre. He had been serving a four-year, 135-day sentence for “repeatedly stabbing” another inmate at the province’s Stony Mountain Institution, leaving them with a collapsed lung, and for later spitting in a correctional officer’s face. Article content

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While Bard’s sexual assault conviction came in 2015, the unit said he “re

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