This is ridiculous.
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.
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Would you sit next to this guy, knowing his history?
Like Parcells said about passing: '3 things can happen, and 2 of them are bad'.
Meaning no harm to anyone else but justice would be the 'bad' scitzo decapping the 'professionals' who came up with that rendering.
Not sure if this is a serious response. Would you be willing to expose your loved ones to this guy?
Either insanity is a medical condition that prevents the sufferer form knowing right from wrong or it's not. If it is, he walks when he no longer suffers from the sickness. If not, then just skip the shrinks and throw his ass in jail.
And even more wonderful, they are 100% capable of assuring that a person who requires anti-psychotic drugs will take them every day for the rest of their lives, guaranteed.
As far as precision goes, it ranks right up there with economics.
Maybe I missed it but I don't remember anything in the article that said the guy will be allowed to go anywhere at all for a period of time that could cause danger to the community through lack of meds.
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is a threat to society, but it's just wrong from a moral standpoint. He was/is clinically insane, so he shouldn't be in prison, but he has no business walking as a free man ever again.
It's not moral to condemn a person to jail if they are rendered incapable of knowing right from wrong through no fault of their own.
Either insanity is a medical condition that prevents the sufferer form knowing right from wrong or it's not. If it is, he walks when he no longer suffers from the sickness. If not, then just skip the shrinks and throw his ass in jail.
You're missing one very important variable. He no longer shows symptoms of his sickness because he is on meds and is supervised. There is no guarantee that would continue if he were released or granted unsupervised trips that last longer than a dose of whatever meds he is on. That doesn't mean he should be incarcerated, but it certainly points towards being institutionalized with supervised trips.
Sorry, but this goes beyond the extent to which I trust the psychiatric profession, especially post-beheading.
We can all see where this is headed...or not.
Don't forget he gutted and ate parts of this guy who did nothing but listen to headphones and sleep in the back of the bus. If this was my kid I would have that guy's head as an ashtray. Mental illnesses aside.
If its been five years, and they medicated the crap out of him, I believe them.
That said, there's some good yucks on this thread. As long as this guy stays up in Canada I suppose things will work out okay.
Great if he's no longer insane, but there's no reason he should ever be not institutionalized for the rest of his life.
At least the rapper that smoked PCP and cannibalized his roommate kind of had an excuse, but you don't see him walking free (nor should you).
Detainment after an extreme crime serves a number of functions, not just punishment, or even the well-being of the community.. One of these is for the emotional well-being of the family of the beheaded. If they are now faced with severe emotional distress because of the lenient treatment of this supposedly former wacko, is that appropriate?
Btw, for those who know me here, I am usually in favor of relatively limited punishment for a host of types of bad behaviors. This isn't one of them.