CRIME SCENE: Cops investigating after body found in burned car

Homicide detectives in Halton Region are investigating the discovery of a body found in a burned car in Burlington.

Emergency personnel were called Sunday around 3:30 a.m. to a burning car on Dundas St., near Tremaine Rd.

A body was discovered after firefighters doused the blaze. It was taken to Toronto’s Centre of Forensic Sciences to be examined.

Cops hunt escapee

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Thomas Brailsford, 62Photo by Police handout /Toronto Sun

Toronto Police found a man who escaped from a CAMH facility after being found not criminally responsible in the 2010 beheading death of his 78-year-old mother.

Thomas Brailsford, 62, was last seen in the Ossington Ave.-Queen St. area on Saturday at 2:55 p.m. Officers located him around 10 a.m. on Sunday.

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Police had cautioned the public to call 911 and to not approach Brailsford if they spotted him.

SUSPECTS WANTED IN ASSAULT

Police are looking for two suspects, including the one pictured above, after a man was hit over the head with a bottle. https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/torontosun/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/c05be343-3cff-42c6-bb12-6a617ec19ca6-e1669593532522.jpg?quality="90&strip=all&w=576 2x" height="319" loading="lazy" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/torontosun/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/c05be343-3cff-42c6-bb12-6a617ec19ca6-e1669593532522.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=288" width="425"/>
Police are looking for two suspects, including the one pictured above, after a man was hit over the head with a bottle.Photo by Police handout

Toronto Police officers are looking for two suspects after a man was hit over the head with a bottle.

Officers were called to the Dufferin-Bloor Sts. area around 8:30 p.m. on July 9 after the victim complained he was hit over the head with a bottle while talking with two men.

The two men fled after the attack.

The first suspect had a medium build, a beard and was wearing a black baseball cap, a plaid button-up shirt and blue jeans. The other had a medium build, was clean-shaven and wore a Toronto Blue Jays T-shirt, and baseball cap.

SEXUAL ASSAULT

Hamilton Police are investigating the sexual assault of a woman on Saturday around 7 p.m. in northeastern Hamilton.

Officers are asking people in the Catharine-Robert Sts. area to review security cameras for any suspicious activity between 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

The dark-skinned suspect is described as a 6-foot, skinny male with a scar from his mouth to his ear on the right side of his face.

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