(TELEGRAPH) — A man convicted of threatening to kill Madonna is on the loose on the streets of Los Angeles after slipping out of the mental health facility where he was being held.

Robert Dewey Hoskins, 54, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars in 1996 after being arrested for scaling a wall around the singer’s home in the Hollywood Hills and threatening to slit her throat.

Madonna testified during Hoskins’ trial that she had nightmares about the homeless man from Oregon after seeing him near her home in 1995.

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