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Toronto police say they’ve found a missing man they had described as a “danger to himself and others.”

Thomas Brailsford, who was found not criminally responsible in the beheading of his mother five years ago, was located Friday by Toronto police at 10:30 a.m., near Windermere Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard in the city’s west end. Police said they received a tip about Brailsford’s location from a passerby who spotted him.



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Brailsford had last been seen Thursday afternoon near the Jane Street and Bloor Street West area. He was being escorted to a medical appointment when he escaped, according to a Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) statement.



Brailsford also went missing for several days last September from CAMH after he was granted a day pass. He was later found in a west-end neighbourhood and returned to CAMH.

In 2010, Brailsford was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 78-year-old mother, Barbara Starkey-Brailsford, who was found dead in her Toronto apartment. He was found not criminally responsible the following year and sent to CAMH.