CAMH patient missing since Tuesday found in Brampton

By News staff

A 45-year-old man who went missing from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto earlier this week was found in Brampton.

Toronto police said Anthony Murdock was located by Peel police around 2:30 a.m. Friday.

He was taken into police custody and is set to appear at Old City Hall at 10 a.m. He is facing a charge of failing to comply with an Ontario Review Board decision.

Murdock was out with an escort on an accompanied pass on Tuesday afternoon when he walked away from the CAMH facility in the area of Queen Street West and Ossington Avenue area.

Police said Murdock was found not criminally responsible for an indecent act that occurred in 1998.

According to documents from the Ontario Review Board, which conducts annual assessments of those found not criminally responsible, all of the offences involved unknown women and, in one case, at least one young girl.

Murdock was the fourth CAMH patient to go missing last month. Three of them were found, but one remains at-large.

Zhebin Cong, 47, has been missing since July 3. CAMH said Cong was on an unaccompanied pass permitted by the Ontario Review Board (ORB), but failed to return to the facility. Police later revealed that he had flown out of the country.

Cong was an in-patient at the secured forensic unit of CAMH and deals with schizophrenia, ORB records show.

On Wednesday evening, another patient disappeared from a CAMH facility — a halfway house near Dundas Street West and Crawford Street — but it appeared to be a case of miscommunication.

According to CAMH, Shawn O’Neil, 65, was never actually missing. As part of his treatment, he is supposed to check in with the centre periodically to make sure his treatment is on track. CAMH said when he did that on Wednesday, they determined he needed to be admitted.

However, the halfway house was not informed of this development and when he didn’t return, they called police and reported him missing on Thursday morning. He was found around 9 a.m.

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