Mount Carmel escapee still missing over two months later

The police have confirmed that they are still on the lookout for Thomas Michael Stewart, a mental health patient who fled Mount Carmel back in May. 

Stewart, 59, was reported missing on 20 May, and the police had already issued two missing person reports on him.

His wife said last week that she will file a judicial protest against Mount Carmel CEO Clifton Grima, police commissioner Laurence Cutajar and health minister Chris Fearne over the circumstances of her husband’s disappearance.

Phyllis Stewart told The Malta Independnet that she believes her husband’s difference was the result of negligent behaviour by the Mount Carmel authorities.

“Tom Stewart’s escape from Mount Carmel occurred solely and exclusively as a consequence of default, carelessness, lack of skill, non-observance of regulations and omission of diligence on the part of the respondent minister and respondent Principal Executive Officer in the performance of their duty to provide for the care, custody, surveillance and supervision of patients in the mentioned facility,” she wrote in her judicial protest.

She has also accused the police of negligence, noting that they hadn’t even approached her in their investigations.

“I always had to phone them. They never called me I think it’s logical that the first person they need to speak to is the wife of the missing man.”

Thomas Michael Stewart is around 6 feet 5 inches tall, tanned with a slim build and sandy hair. People with any information about his whereabouts are urged to contact the police on 21224001/9 or on 119 or at any police station