Credit card, loose leg irons part of hospital escape riddle

Justin Yates, the violent criminal who slipped out of Toronto General Hospital Thursday, used a prepaid credit card to grab a taxi outside TGH.  He didn’t go far — the cab dropped him at Yonge and Dundas. But the mystery of where the card came from remains. Det. Const. Aggrey Koech confirmed that Yates used a prepaid credit card to pay for a cab he hailed outside the hospital during his getaway — which involved somehow ridding himself of leg irons. Koech said he had “no idea” how Yates — escorted by two guards to the hospital — was able to get his hands on the card. He told the Toronto Sun that nothing points to Yates having help, but that possibility remains under investigation.