Patient’s body in river
The man whose body ■was recovered from the Avon River yesterday morning had disappeared from Sunnyside Hospital less than an hour earlier. He was Malcolm Arthur Mundy, aged 53, a patient at the hospital. A shopkeeper saw Mr Mundy’s body floating i . the " river near the
Gloucester Street bridge about 9.40 a.m. The fully-clothed body was recovered by a police team. ”r Mundy had been a patient at Sunnyside for several years, the deputy medica superintendent of the hospital (Dr J. A. Begg) said yesterday. “He was in an onen. or non-security, ward and there was nothing to pre-
vent him from leaving,” said Dr Begg. He said Mr Mundy had been in the ward yesterday morning, but had failed to turn up for industrial therapy. “It appears that he just slipped away and went to town on the bus,” Dr Begg said. The police say there were no suspicious circumstances.
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