One-time suspect in wife's death faces new charges

BELLEVILLE, Ill. -- A southwestern Illinois man once ordered confined to a mental-health center in his wife's stabbing death now faces charges he assaulted the mother of his infant baby.

Madison County prosecutors have charged John Grinston in the alleged attacks on his 4-month-old child's mother. A judge in neighboring St. Clair County judge has ordered Grinston to return to the mental hospital amid those charges.

That judge found Grinston not guilty by reason of insanity in 2000 in the 1997 slaying of his wife in East St. Louis. Grinston was confined to an Alton mental hospital. He was placed on conditional release in 2006.

A message left Monday with his attorney was not immediately returned.