Ontario Review Board
Re: Prateek Mann
ORB File No: 7959
Hearing held on: Thursday, May 22, 2025
Place of hearing: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 1001 Queen Street West, Toronto
Pursuant to: Section 672.81(1) of the Criminal Code
Before: Alternate Chairperson: Ms. S. Kert Members: Dr. L. Cappe Dr. M. Mamak Hon. B. Allen Mr. A. Bouvier
Parties Appearing: Accused: Prateek Mann Counsel: Mr. R. Brooks
The person in charge of hospital: Counsel: Ms. M. Warner
Attorney General of Ontario: Counsel: Ms. L. Earle
REASONS FOR DISPOSITION
(Dated July 8, 2025)
Overview
On October 22, 2021, Prateek Mann was found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder (NCR) on a charge of aggravated assault. Since the finding of NCR and the initial disposition, Mr. Mann has remained subject to dispositions of the Ontario Review Board, most recently a disposition dated June 27, 2024, detaining him at the Forensic Service of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), with privileges extending to indirectly supervised community passes, and passes in the community for up to 24 hours accompanied by staff or a person approved.
On May 22, 2025, this panel of the Review Board convened to conduct the annual review of Mr. Mann’s disposition. Mr. Mann was present and represented by his counsel, Mr. Brooks. Mr. Mann’s wife and mother were also in attendance to show their support for him.
None of the parties contested a finding of significant threat, and the parties jointly submitted that the current detention disposition (unchanged) remains necessary and appropriate, having regard to the criteria in s. 672.54 of the Criminal Code. We agree. These are our reasons.
Background and Index Offence
At the time of the hearing, Mr. Mann was 33 years of age. He was born in India, came to Canada as a child and is now a Canadian citizen. He is married and the father of a 9-year-old son.
As a result of his troubling behaviour as a teenager, Mr. Mann’s parents sent him to a boarding school in India where he completed grade 9. He reportedly engaged in physical fights with other students and was brought back to Canada. He enrolled in high school but dropped out soon after.
Mr. Mann moved out of the family home at the age of 17 and worked at various jobs until he started his own moving company in 2010. Unfortunately, after a few years the business was not successful. He has been unemployed since 2015 and began receiving ODSP in 2019.
Mr. Mann and his wife married in 2013. Initially they lived with his parents, but within a year moved out to live with her family. In 2015, Mr. Mann had an argument with his mother-in-law and was asked to leave the house. His wife stayed in her family home but continued to visit Mr. Mann. It was around this time that she began to notice that he was experiencing symptoms of psychosis. In June 2015, she completed a Form 2 under the Mental Health Act and Mr. Mann was admitted to the Brampton Civic Hospital. He had become increasingly religiously preoccupied, paranoid, and threatening towards his wife and mother.
After he was discharged from the hospital, Mr. Mann moved back in with his wife and her mother, but at some point the police were called because he was displaying bizarre behaviour. In October 2015, he was readmitted to the Brampton hospital on a Form 2. He had been talking to himself and destroyed property in the family home. He was paranoid and threatening towards family members.
In the years that followed, up to the time of the index offence, Mr. Mann had multiple admissions to hospital in the context of medication non-adherence and substance use. His use of cannabis began when he was 15. By 2015, he was using substances heavily, including MDMA. In 2019, he began abusing his prescription sleeping pills. By the time of the index offence, he was snorting cocaine on a daily basis.
In 2019, when her mother purchased a new house, Mr. Mann’s wife allowed Mr. Mann to move in with