Overview
- The British Columbia Review Board granted Allan Schoenborn a conditional discharge that took effect Tuesday and requires him to report to a psychiatric clinic, live under supervised residence and submit to alcohol and drug testing.
- The disposition bars Schoenborn from possessing weapons and using alcohol, cannabis or prohibited drugs, allows the board to order his return to the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam, and will be reviewable in one year.
- Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible (NCR) in 2010 for the 2008 killings of his three children and has been under forensic psychiatric supervision since that finding.
- A family representative called the decision baffling and unsafe, and politicians including a former party leader and a municipal mayor publicly voiced anger at the board’s move.
- The case has already prompted policy action before — Schoenborn’s 2021 legal name change led B.C. to bar name changes for serious offenders — and the discharge is likely to renew scrutiny of how review boards and mental-health oversight balance treatment and public safety.