A voice of sanity to protect the public.

Last year, Daniel Pestill was found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder after he killed beloved Oshawa cabbie Michael Ryan in the belief that he was a member of an “illuminati secret society.” Suffering from psychotic symptoms as far back as 2020 and diagnosed with schizophrenia and polysubstance use disorder, he was ordered detained at Whitby’s Ontario Shores for Mental Health Sciences.

The judge went one step further and designated Pestill, 35, as high risk – a rare designation that means when he comes before the Ontario Review Board for his annual hearing, the panel can’t impose any condition that allows him to be absent from the hospital without an escort.

But what does “hospital” entail?

At Pestill’s first annual hearing las

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