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A man housed at the Psychiatric Hospital for more than 40 years on Thursday pleaded to be set free as a High Court judge disclosed that while authorities are “fighting” to get him out, all systems are still not in place for him to be reintegrated into society.“I need to be free!” declared Theo Bourne, one of two men who have been kept at the Black Rock, St Michael institution for a combined 76 years but have been deemed fit to re-enter society.“I have been away from society for 42 years . . . . For years I have been at the Psychiatric Hospital and I never mentally relax,” said the visibly frustrated 62-year-old man.Bourne was speaking after Senior Registrar at the hospital Dr Ronald Chase gave Justice Randall Worrell a progress report on Bourne and fellow patient John Brathwaite, 56, who has been housed at the institution for the past 34 years.

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