B.C. Premier David Eby says Canada’s not-criminally-responsible system is re-victimizing victims and “not working,” in the wake of Allan Schoenborn recently being granted conditional discharge.
Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible (NCR) for murdering his three children in 2008 in Merritt, B.C., due to a mental disorder. He was granted a one-year conditional discharge by the British Columbia Review Board that took effect this week.
“The not-criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder provisions under the Criminal Code have resulted in a system that continually re-victimizes the family that was affected by Mr. Schoenborn’s horrific crimes,” Eby told reporters June 5….