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In order to enrol fugitive killer Zhebin Cong in English-language training programs to help his mental health treatment, his psychiatric team worked to get official identification documents for the Chinese national, National Post has learned.

It is not known whether new identity papers materialized or helped him leave Canada, but Cong, found not criminally responsible for a brutal 2014 murder on account of mental disorder, is now an international fugitive after fleeing a psychiatric facility in Toronto and boarding a plane out of Canada.

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His flight should not have been a surprise.

Cong, 47, repeatedly declared a “concrete” plan to return to China if he had the chance, his psychiatric records say.

He was “very fixed” on returning to China and adamant about not continuing English classes because it will be useless to him when he gets back home.

He was 'very fixed' on returning to China

His treatment team had difficulty arranging for his discharge from a psychiatric facility to live in the community because of his fixation on moving back to China, his reports say.