Behaviour of mentally ill dad who killed kids doesn’t stick out: psych nurse
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — A mentally ill British Columbia man who killed his three children behaves in similar ways to other patients in a Port Coquitlam, B.C., psychiatric hospital, a court heard as Crown lawyers seek harsher rules around his confinement.
Reports on Allan Schoenborn’s day-to-day behaviour from a nurse who works closely with him contrast with the case prosecutors are building for a stricter designation they’re seeking under the Criminal Code.
The Crown wants Schoenborn labelled a “high-risk accused,” but his lawyers contend he is being singled out under legislation fashioned as part of the former Conservative government’s tough-on-crime agenda.
Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible on account of a mental disorder for stabbing his 10-year-old daughter, and smothering his five- and eight-year-olds sons at their Merritt, B.C., mobile home in April 2008.