From Kamloops this Week
Almost two years after a transfer request to a Manitoba psychiatric hospital was turned down, convicted killer Allan Schoenborn has been granted escorted outings into the community.
Schoenborn, who murdered his three children in their Merritt home in 2008, received the approval from the B.C. Review Board on Friday as part of an annual hearing.
The three-member panel deliberated for a month before making the ruling. The panel held 30 hours of hearings over a six-week period.
It comes despite the Crown reminding the panel of federal legislation that empowers panels like theirs to hold mentally ill offenders indefinitely.
Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder for the deaths of 10-year-old Kaitlynne, eight-year-old Max and five-year-old Cordon while their mother, Darcie Clark, was out.
Clark’s family issued a statement saying they have been dreading a ruling that would let Schoenborn out of the Coquitlam psychiatric hospital, where he now resides.
“Allan Schoenborn, the man who murdered my three children — Kaitlynne, Max and Cordon — will be re-entering our community even though the review board found him to be a high risk to public safety,” the satement said.
Schoenborn will be accompanied by Dr. Johann Bring of the Colony Farm Forensic Psychiatric Hospital.
Last year, a request by Schoenborn for day passes was turned down by the panel and he was deemed to be a risk to the community.
“He could be in our community at any time without the public’s knowledge because the review board does not have the public’s safety as their paramount concern,” Clark’s statement continued.
“I will now live in consistent fear that he will move ahead with his threats against me, because as he has said, I am unfinished business.”
