sex offender re-arrested after release to halfway house

Vancouver police say officers have re-arrested a convicted sex offender shortly after the public was warned that he was living in the city last week.

On Thursday, the VPD said Hayden McCorriston had obtained statutory release and was living at a halfway house.

The 30-year-old was convicted of sexually assaulting multiple women in Burnaby and Vancouver in 2022 and is currently serving a three-year, two-month prison sentence for those offences, the VPD says.

On Friday, police say McCorriston was seen leaving his halfway house downtown just before 10:30 a.m.

McCorriston was initially released under conditions that include not consuming drugs or alcohol, a curfew between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., not entering a licensed establishment, and reporting all relationships with women — intimate or platonic — to his parole supervisor.

Correctional Service Canada issued the warrant for his arrest Friday afternoon after McCorriston did not return to his halfway house.

In an update Monday, the VPD confirmed that McCorriston had been re-arrested after he allegedly “violated the conditions of his release and took deliberate steps to avoid being located.”

Police say he remains in custody.

Hayden McCorriston. (Courtesy Vancouver Police Department)

—With files from Charlie Carey and Emma Crawford