Police warn public of high-risk offender moving to London

London police are warning the public that a high-risk sex offender is moving to London.

On April 10, police say 42-year-old Jason Willian Cornish will be moving to an unspecified area of the city after being released from custody.

Cornish is described as male, white, five-foot-seven, 175 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. He has been known to alter his appearance by dying his hair and shaving his head, said police.

Cornish has been assessed as a high-risk offender for sexual violence towards women, and police say his past behaviour includes approaching female strangers and engaging them in conversation, which police say has been followed by sexual assaults, assaults, and criminal harassment.

Police said they had been notified by the courts that Cornish had provided an address in London upon his release from custody after being arrested in March 2017 in another jurisdiction. London police had no further information on the arrest but said that the matter was still before the courts.

Anyone with information is asked to call the London Police Service at (519) 661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Information can also be sent in online here.

It’s not the first time police have alerted the public to Cornish living in the city.

In July 2016, police issued a notice to the public that Cornish had been released from a federal institution following the completion of his sentence and would be living in London.

Cornish had been serving time for a conviction of criminal harassment and a conviction of assault stemming from an incident that occurred on a London Transit bus during the mid-day hours of November 11, 2013, according to a Court of Appeal document.

The Court of Appeal document, dated July 13, 2016, the day before he would be released, described Cornish as a “dedicated recidivist” whose record spanned more than two decades, and at the time, included six prior convictions for criminal harassment, three for sexual assault and 13 for fail to comply with various forms of release.

The document said Cornish suffered from Asperger’s Syndrome, and stated he had previously spent two 12-month stints in a reformatory following convictions of criminal harassment and sexual assault.

Cornish had been initially sentenced to three years in the case but was released after serving more than 27 months, according to the document. The Court of Appeal found his initial sentence to be “at odds with the fundamental principle of proportionality,” and substituted the initial sentence for a sentence of time served plus one day.