Violent Madonna stalker escapes from a hospital

A man with violent tendencies who was convicted of stalk­ing Madonna has escaped from a psychiatric hospital, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

Robert Dewey Hoskins, 54, who was convicted in 1996 of stalking the star, walked out of hospital a week ago.

He once scaled a wall of Madonna’s Hollywood home and threatened to cut her throat from ear to ear .

He was jailed for 10 years in 1996 and after his release was transferred to one hospital where he was diagnosed as a “mentally disturbed offender,” according to police.

Last July, about a year after his release from that hospital, he was arrested again and sent to the ­Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, southeast of Los Angeles.

“Hoskins is highly psychotic when not taking his medication and has very violent tendencies,” said an LAPD statement, asking people to be on the lookout for him.

“He could be in the Los Ange-les area.”

Madonna testified at Mr Hoskins’ trial in 1996 that she had recurring nightmares since seeing the homeless drifter near her home in April 1995.

She said: “My bodyguard told me Mr Hoskins claimed he was there to take me away... that I was supposed to be his wife, that if he couldn’t have me, he was going to slice my throat from ear to ear.”

Mr Hoskins returned to her Hollywood Hills estate the following month, at a time when the singer was in Florida, scaled the perimeter wall and jumped into her pool before being shot twice by a guard.

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