Bail conditions lifted on accused sex offender

A man facing a string of sex charges in the Strait area won his fight on Thursday to have the conditions of his bail loosened.

Since his release on bail in April 2008, Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh, 66,had beenobligated to stay within the Halifax Regional Municipality except to attend court in Port Hawkesbury.

He also had a nightly curfew and he had to report to Halifax police twice a week.

On Thursday a judge grantedhis request to have those conditions lifted.

MacIntosh is facing trial in October on 36 charges including indecent assault and gross indecency. The charges are related to alleged incidents involving six males that took place in several communities in the 1970s and 1980s.

He was first arrested and detained in 2007 at his home in India, where he had been living for 13 years, then extradited to Canada.