Vancouver: Man who stabbed 3 random people Sunday was on day pass after killing daughter.

[CdnFox]

https://www.iheartradio.ca/:~:text=Court documents show Donnelly was,as "tragic and disturbing."

The man who allegedly stabbed three strangers in Vancouver's Chinatown Sunday has been identified and charged – and court records show he was confined to a psychiatric facility after being found not criminally responsible for killing his teenage daughter 15 years ago.

Blair Evan Donnelly, 64, was charged with three counts of aggravated assault Monday, according to an update from the Vancouver Police Department.

Donnelly was arrested shortly after the random stabbing Sunday evening which occurred at a festival that drew thousands to the historic neighbourhood.

At a news conference Monday morning, VPD Chief Const. Adam Palmer said the suspect was on a day pass from a forensic psychiatric institution at the time.

Court documents show Donnelly was found not criminally responsible for the second-degree murder of his 16-year-old daughter in 2008. The teen was fatally stabbed in 2006 in Kitimat, and the judge who made the decision in the criminal case described the circumstances as "tragic and disturbing."

Donnelly has been at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, also known as Colony Farm, in Coquitlam for the past 15 years. In April of 2023, the review board changed the conditions of his detention to allow him to leave the property with prior permission.

"At the director's discretion he may have escorted and unescorted access to the community depending on his mental condition, having regard to the risk the accused then poses to himself or others," the board's decision says.

CTV News Vancouver asked for comment from B.C.'s Ministry of Public Safety on the case and was referred to the Ministry of Health. This story will be updated if a response from the province is received. 

 

And another example of soft on crime.

It's just gotten so out of control.

Edited September 12, 2023 by CdnFox

[Nefarious Banana]

Leich & Barber should be given 'life without parole' . . .

[Nexii]

Yea, not criminally responsible doesn't mean not dangerous.

Sounds like more of an issue with how mental institutions are run than crime. Anyone who's killed should not be let out unescorted ever, IMO

[CdnFox]

1 minute ago, Nexii said:

Yea, not criminally responsible doesn't mean not dangerous.

Sounds like more of an issue with how mental institutions are run than crime. Anyone who's killed should not be let out unescorted ever, IMO

Well the problem is when the mental institutions take on the role of the justice system.

I agree.  "lets let him out and see if he's better"  is not a good plan with a violent criminal who brutally slaughtered his own daughter. And predictably this is the result. At least THIS one wasn't on parole i guess.

The rights of the criminal are important but they've taken over the rights of the individual citizens and their safety.

[WestCanMan]

Leftists: "Stop feeling sorry for everyone else and feel sorry for the stabber. HE'S A VICTIM! ❤️"

[WestCanMan]

1 hour ago, CdnFox said:

Well the problem is

That wokeness comes before common sense now.

We err on the side of criminal rights constantly and without reason.

Maybe the mental health system should have been wise to that guy sometime before he murdered his own daughter. Are we to believe that no one ever called the cops and said "WTF man, this guy is a loonie..."

[Nexii]

51 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

Leftists: "Stop feeling sorry for everyone else and feel sorry for the stabber. HE'S A VICTIM! ❤️"

Feeling empathy for someone isn't mutually exclusive from doing what's best for them

[CdnFox]

19 minutes ago, Nexii said:

Feeling empathy for someone isn't mutually exclusive from doing what's best for them

I have empathy for the slaughtered daughter and the three who just got stabbed. What would have been best for those three is for this guy to never see the light of day.

[Army Guy]

Canadians don't have the balls to lock criminals up forever. it's ok they can kill people but how dare we break their constitutional rights with sentences they deserve, ...and well victims don't have rights.

[herbie]

Hate to spoil your rant with facts, but it was not a failure of our Justice system, it was a failure by mental health professionals to let him out unescorted.
If the guy's found not criminally responsible - he's not a criminal. he's a mental case.

And for all your anti-woke rhetoric what is this about the 'rights' of dead people and parents? Promoting the recognition of things that are not currently recognized is wokeness....

[blackbird]

Apparently the federal law does not require someone who has been found not guilty of murder by reason of "not criminally responsible", although they committed the crime, does not require such a person to be kept in a mental institution under guard.  They can be released on a day pass and go out to stab other people.  Again, a total failure of the Trudeau liberals.   Even the B.C. NDP leader, Premier Eby came out today and condemned what has happened.  He should put his words into action and do whatever he can to change the system.  Public safety comes first.

Edited September 12, 2023 by blackbird

[blackbird]

54 minutes ago, herbie said:

If the guy's found not criminally responsible - he's not a criminal. he's a mental case.

Oh, why is there no law in the justice system to prevent people found NCR who committed serious crimes like murder from being released on day passes?

[herbie]

FYI Eby condemned the act, not the process. So don't even attempt to use it as supporting your ignorance between your vision of justice and the law.
We all know you just don't like the concept of NCR, it's just too confusing for your concept of Old Testament justice.

Repeat: it had nothing to do with law or justice, It was a medical judgenent failure.

Edited September 12, 2023 by herbie

[CdnFox]

2 hours ago, herbie said:

Hate to spoil your rant with facts, but it was not a failure of our Justice system, it was a failure by mental health professionals to let him out unescorted.

Hate to spoil your mild delusions but it was the justice system that turned him over to the mental health people in the first place.

[Legato]

1 hour ago, herbie said:

FYI Eby condemned the act, not the process. So don't even attempt to use it as supporting your ignorance between your vision of justice and the law.
We all know you just don't like the concept of NCR, it's just too confusing for your concept of Old Testament justice.

Repeat: it had nothing to do with law or justice, It was a medical judgenent failure.

People like yourself are all okay with the "hug a thug" mentality until one day when you become a victim, Then it hits you right where your balls used to be.

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, herbie said:

FYI Eby condemned the act, not the process. So don't even attempt to use it as supporting your ignorance between your vision of justice and the law.

Well.... Kind of sounds like he condemned the process to me.

"I am so angry. I am white-hot angry that this person was released unaccompanied into the community to have a devastating impact on all of the hard work of these community members," said Eby on Tuesday morning.

"I cannot fathom how someone who murdered his daughter was released in 2009, went out and stabbed somebody else, would then be released again, unaccompanied, [was] somehow able to go out and buy a knife, and then go to Chinatown and stab three people," said Eby.

"How is that possible?"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-premier-david-eby-chinatown-stabbing-1.6964193

[blackbird]

This is the result of psychiatrists and "professionals" in charge and making decisions about giving day passes to dangerous offenders in a psychiatric institution.  There is going to be a "review" of this event.  I would not be surprised if the authorities learn that the so-called professionals had decided he was making progress and was now safe to be given a day pass.  Anyone should see through this whole thing and realize the system is a farce and needs to scrapped.  It only proves no professional can predict with certainty what these kind offenders will do and such people should never be let out under any conditions.  Nobody should be given the authority to let them out.

[Nexii]

1 hour ago, blackbird said:

This is the result of psychiatrists and "professionals" in charge and making decisions about giving day passes to dangerous offenders in a psychiatric institution.  There is going to be a "review" of this event.  I would not be surprised if the authorities learn that the so-called professionals had decided he was making progress and was now safe to be given a day pass.  Anyone should see through this whole thing and realize the system is a farce and needs to scrapped.  It only proves no professional can predict with certainty what these kind offenders will do and such people should never be let out under any conditions.  Nobody should be given the authority to let them out.

I feel a lot of it comes from hubris in this field. Thinking they've cured the incurable. While psychiatry has come a long way its got a long ways to go still.

[herbie]

My apologies for blowing off like that, especially to blackbird.

Premier Eby did express his anger at the system that failed in this instance and is rightfully investigating how this guy got let out.
The point I was trying to make was only that it was a screw up by the doctors and social workers involved, not by the "justice system" of Judges, lawyers and prosecutors. Two different entities.

The guy was out before in 2009 and stabbed someone then.... I'm sure no one imagined he's do it again after being locked up for another 14 years, but that's their job not ours. They failed completely.

The BC Govt also directed prosecutors months ago to crack down on bail for repeat offenders, but I've yet to see or hear anything further as to the results of that.