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Mug shot/artist court rendering of Merritt child killer Allen Schoenborn/via Dave Teixeira
The British Columbia Review Board has ruled that Allan Schoenborn, who killed his three children in 2008, will keep his eligibility for up to 28 days of unescorted leave from a Metro Vancouver psychiatric hospital.
In a decision posted online by Dave Teixeira, a spokesman for the children’s relatives, the board says Schoenborn must not possess weapons, use alcohol or non-approved drugs or have contact with the relatives.
The decision also acknowledges Schoenborn’s name change to Ken John Johnson, a move that led the provincial government to propose legislation to prevent those convicted of serious crimes from changing names in the future.
He was found guilty of the first-degree murder of his children, aged five, eight and 10, whose bodies were found in the family’s Merritt home in 2008, but a judge ruled he was not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.
Schoenborn has been held at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam since 2010, but in 2022 the Review Board granted the hospital director discretion to allow him up to 28 days of overnight leave.
Teixeira says on social media platform X that the decision is disappointing given that all parties at the board’s hearing earlier this week agreed that Schoenborn remains a risk.
#UPDATE Here is a copy of the BC Review Board decision RE 3x child killer Allan Schoenborn. Namely, he remains “high risk” but will keep his up to 28 day unescorted leave into community privilege. #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/8irV42G9iI
— Dave Teixeira 🎧 (@davedotca) June 28, 2024