Sex offender agrees to conditions prior to release

Convicted sex offender Brian Keith Solberg told the court he welcomes the range of strict conditions placed on him as he prepares to return to the community this week.

“I agree to them (the conditions) very much ...,” the 64-year-old told Regina Provincial Court Judge Bruce Henning on Monday. “It gives me some good structure and it will help me behave myself.”

Solberg is considered a high risk to reoffend, leading the Crown to apply for a two-year recognizance that imposes hefty conditions on his freedom once his most recent sentence comes to an end on Wednesday.

The conditions are intended to address his risk factors.

They prohibit him from drinking or using non-prescription drugs or medication that enhances sexual function, monitoring his romantic relationships with women and keeping him out of areas frequented by sex trade workers.

He is also to stay within a 10-kilometre radius of Regina, not contact past victims or females under 18, and notify the high-risk offender co-ordinator with the city police of changes in his appearance, among other conditions.

Solberg told Henning he did not need to speak with a lawyer before agreeing to the conditions which he’d read through prior to court.

The sentence that is expiring is a two-year term imposed in March 2013 after Solberg pleaded guilty to breaching his recognizance — one similar to the one he is about to be released on — by driving through an area of Regina known to be frequented by sex-trade workers.

Solberg asked for and received the maximum two years for that offence, stating he wanted to go to the federal penitentiary to take cognitive and sex offender programming.

Solberg’s criminal history includes a number of sex offences, the most recent earning him a 10-year sentence for a brutal attack on a woman in British Columbia.

That sentence ended in 2004 and Solberg has been on various forms of release conditions since then.

While Solberg hasn’t been charged with further sex offences since his release from prison on the B.C. conviction, he has landed back in custody a number of times for breaching court-ordered conditions.

He has been the subject of warnings to the public issued by police when he has been released back into the community.

“I AGREE TO THEM VERY MUCH ... IT GIVES ME SOME GOOD STRUCTURE AND IT WILL HELP ME BEHAVE MYSELF.” KEITH SOLBERG