Review board denies discharge to man who killed five at Calgary house party
CTV
A mental health review board has rejected a discharge request from a man who killed killing five people at a Calgary house party almost a decade ago.
A mental health review board has rejected a discharge request from a man who killed killing five people at a Calgary house party almost a decade ago.
Matthew de Grood was found not criminally responsible for the 2014 stabbing deaths of Zackariah Rathwell, Jordan Segura, Kaiti Perras, Josh Hunter and Lawrence Hong.
A court determined he had been living with undiagnosed schizophrenia at the time of the killings, and he has since been under psychiatric care.
"The board is satisfied that there is some certainty that Mr. de Grood remains a significant threat to the safety of the public and that the board cannot discharge him absolutely," Gerald Hawranik, chair of Alberta's Criminal Code Review Board, wrote in a report released Friday.
An annual hearing before the board last month was told de Grood's schizophrenia is in complete remission but requires two medications to keep it in check.
De Grood's lawyer, Jacqueline Petrie, had asked for her client to be given an absolute or conditional discharge, considering he's not a danger to the public and has been a model patient.
But the board disagreed.
