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SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - A Fort McMurray man who sexually assaulted a woman in Yellowknife in 2003 is back behind bars after breaching a court condition.

Lee Laviolette, 41, was to attend treatment as directed by his probation order, which he failed to do on Monday, Feb. 9.

He's scheduled to face the charge in the Fort McMurray court on Feb. 23, according to James Mahon, chief Crown prosecutor in Fort McMurray.

The Crown will request he remains in jail, but Mahon didn't say for how long.

In May 2003 Laviolette was sentenced in Supreme Court of the NWT to three years in prison after pleading guilty to the sexual assault of a woman in June 2002. He told the woman he would walk her home when the two left a bar. Laviolette walked the woman, who was new to the city, to a secluded area where he threw her to the ground and sexually assaulted her twice. The woman escaped when an intoxicated Laviolette passed out.

During the sentencing for that crime, Justice Edward Richard said "the cruel and brutal nature of what he did tells me he is ill, that this was more than simply sexual gratification."

Laviolette has a record of violent offences which also includes a previous conviction for sexual assault in 1999.