Leslie Ann wouldn't move from derelict house

About a dozen squatters moved out recently from the unheated derelict house where Leslie Ann Trussler died on Sunday.

But Leslie stayed behind because she was too cold and exhausted to move, the London Free Press reports this morning.

"We couldn't move Leslie because she was cold and tired," Shawn, a fellow squatter in the house, told the newspaper. "You just get sick and tired of moving place to place."

Leslie Ann, 38 and a former Saultite, died of smoke inhalation after an early-morning fire on Sunday in London, Ontario.

Two days earlier, she'd advised her parents here in the Sault that she was coming home.

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New today from the Free Press and/or Sault Star:

- Leslie was a graduate of the University of Western Ontario in London

- She'd been schizophrenic for about 15 years.

- Last year, Leslie underwent treatment at the Riverview Centre for six months.

- Last August, a tribunal gave Leslie’s family "substitute decision-making" powers over her, arranging for her to be treated under Ontario's 'Brian’s Law,' which allows families of mentally ill persons to force them to undergo treatment.

- Leslie was released in September, even though her community treatment order was still in effect.

- Her family was not notified of this change. They learned of Leslie's move to London only when she phoned them.

- "Certainly she’s been lost in that way for a time because the mental health people have not done the things they said they would do," Leslie's father, David Trussler of Sault Ste. Marie, told the Sault Star.

- David Trussler accuses a physician in the hospital's psychiatric unit of circumventing the treatment order and allowed Leslie to leave.

- Trussler told the Free Press he's considering calling for an inquest. "This just can't go untouched," he said.