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Decision on Schoenborn's ask for limited release to take at least a month: lawyer
Abbotsford News - 1/12/2019
The lawyer for Allan Schoenborn says a BC Review Board will need at least a month to decide the latest request for temporary absences from a psychiatric facility.
Schoenborn, who killed his three children and was found not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder, was before the review board Thursday requesting limited, staff-supported community outings.
Schoenborn has been held at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam since 2010, after being convicted of killing his 10-year-old daughter and two sons, aged eight and five, in April 2008.
A B.C. Supreme Court trial heard Schoenborn believed he was saving them from a life of sexual and physical abuse.
Since then, a judge has ruled against an application to have Schoenborn declared a dangerous offender.
In 2015, the review board gave the psychiatric hospital the discretion to grant Schoenborn escorted outings.
The Canadian Press