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Psychiatric patient missing from Whitby hospital found in Toronto

A file photo of a Toronto police cruiser.
A file photo of a Toronto police cruiser. Jeremy Cohn / File / Global News

WHITBY, Ont. — Durham Regional Police say 55-year-old George May was found in Toronto and escorted to a local hospital for a medical assessment.

They say he left the Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences in Whitby, Ont., on Saturday morning.

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May was charged with second-degree murder for strangling a woman and was found not criminally responsible in 2002.

It isn’t the first time May has gone missing — in 2012 he went missing from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto but returned on his own the next day.

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