Man who beheaded Greyhound passenger granted unsupervised outings

[unreadierLizard]

Source: CBC News

A man who beheaded a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba will soon be allowed to leave a mental hospital without an escort.

Thursday's ruling by the Criminal Code Review Board means Vince Li will be on his own in public for the first time since he stabbed Tim McLean and then ate parts of his body six years ago.

The board granted Li all the new freedoms his psychiatric team had requested at a hearing earlier this week. Lead psychiatrist Dr. Steven Kremer said Li, a schizophrenic, has stopped experiencing delusions and is a model, non-violent patient.

Instead of the supervised outings Li had been granted previously, he will be allowed unescorted trips from the Selkirk Mental Health Centre into the nearby city of Selkirk. The visits, to begin next Thursday, are to start at 30 minutes and increase to full days.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/man-who-beheaded-greyhound-passenger-granted-unsupervised-outings-1.2554175

[freshwest]

1. ...

[TwilightGardener]

2. Holy shit. I remember when this happened. Come on, Canada!

Unbelievable. This man attacked a fellow passenger while the poor guy slept--absolutely no warning, just cold-blooded batshit-insane butchery.

[IveWornAHundredPants]

15. What do you think should be done with him?

[TwilightGardener]

16. Supervision.

[unreadierLizard]

3. Don't read the comments.

It's all "give him death penalty" or something stupid like that.

The guy's mentally ill, I get that, but I don't know if he can be trusted outside the hospital by himself.

[Archae]

4. There are people far worse, free and roaming.

Yeesh.

http://www.cracked.com/article_16998_5-horrific-serial-killers-who-are-free-right-now.html

[cvoogt]

9. and some of them have held high office

......

[Rozlee]

5. He's gotten a clearance. Give him a chance. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt.

I'd also be wearing a chain-mail turtle neck sweater.

[Tx4obama]

6. And as soon as he stops taking his medication he'll be delusional and violent again. This is crazy!

n/t

[840high]

7. ...^

[Warpy]

10. Yes and no

Some people are very compliant with their meds, understanding that the often horrific side effects are far better than what happens to them when the delusions start crowding back in.

If he's been a model patient, I say give the poor bastard a chance. I just hope his victim's family doesn't come looking for him.

The brain is the only organ in the human body that is treated like moral failure when it gets ill.

[redwitch]

12. Sorry, no.

Lots of people aren't compliant with their meds and need to be supervised at all times. Like this guy.

[Warpy]

14. I respectfully suggest you don't know him

but his doctors and other caregivers do.

[840high]

17. Agreee. Having worked

at a most respectable New York psychiatric clinic - I know first hand how many times a patient would stop taking meds when they were feeling good.

[IveWornAHundredPants]

18. If you're an undiagnosed schizophrenic, previously peaceable, who wakes from your madness

to discover you've killed, decapitated and eaten another human being, I doubt you ever feel very good.

[CHIMO]

8. Mentally ill inmates kept in 'grossly inadequate' conditions

Prisoners with the most acute mental illness are being locked up in prolonged isolation and unkempt, chaotic and "grossly inadequate" conditions, two years after the United Nations called on Canada to end solitary confinement for inmates with mental disorders.

Documents released under Access to Information reveal that the correctional investigator of Canada raised concerns about the isolation, lack of programming and "gross neglect" of maintenance and hygiene at Ontario's Millhaven Institution.

Records also refer to the "chilling" image of a mentally ill offender in leg shackle restraints at the unit that holds prisoners with schizophrenia, major depression and other mental disorders transferred there after the closure of the Regional Treatment Centre in Kingston last fall.

The records, which include photographs, emails and correspondence, were obtained by the John Howard Society of Canada and provided to CBC News Network's Power & Politics.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mentally-ill-inmates-kept-in-grossly-inadequate-conditions-1.2554110


The get even, punish them government in Canada has made the correctional arm of the government a political joke.

[valerief]

11. Sorry, but this is INSANE. nt

[Judi Lynn]

13. What an odd, and shocking idea. n/t

[Politicalboi]

19. Maybe Li's psychiatric team

Should take turns boarding him. That way if he kills again, we'll know for sure.

[mackerel]

20. scizophrenics do better in a controled

environment with not a lot of people around and very little over stimulation.

[bravenak]

21. Uh oh.

Wow. Unsupervised? Hmmm. What if he cheeks his meds like I used to? I wasn't even violent, but I hate meds. I wonder if they have all of their bases covered.

[Quantess]

22. Meanwhile, other people are locked up for drug possession (in the USA, anyway).

Something is amiss.

[2pooped2pop]

23. hope he's not going for lunch n/t