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A child-sex offender is back in custody today after breaking his release conditions while being electronically monitored.
A Southern Police Communications spokesman said Patrick McGreevy, 38, was arrested overnight in Timaru.
He was to appear in Timaru District Court this morning charged with breaching his supervision order.
McGreevy, who has a history of psychiatric illness, had been living at a Christchurch address approved by the Department of Corrections probation service. He left the address early yesterday and a warrant for his arrest was issued.
In June , McGreevy slipped out of an electronic monitoring bracelet and was on the run for four days before handing himself in to police at Greymouth.
He was jailed for six months and was only recently released back into the community.
- NZPA
