The 83-year-old man who has gone missing from St Vincent de Paul home for the elderly casually walked out through the main gate at 3am on Wednesday last week, CCTV footage shows. The closed-circuit footage is being analysed by police investigators who are trying to trace the missing resident, Karmenu Fino. Fino does not need a walking aid, according to sources close to the government’s largest home for the elderly. The man was last seen on Tuesday afternoon. The CCTV footage is also being analysed by an internal inquiry, being conducted by retired judge Geoffrey Valenzia. It is seeking to establish the facts and made recommendations to prevent similar incidents from taking place in the future. Sources said the inquiry will also call in the guard on duty that night to find out why he failed to see and stop the old man as he walked through the gate at that time of the morning. The sources said the man, who was in the Padre Piju 2 ward, did not have severe dementia so he was not staying in a dementia ward where security is stricter and the doors are locked at all times of the day. Patients and visitors need to press two switches of the ward’s main door simultaneously for it to...
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