The British Columbia Review Board has granted a conditional discharge for a man convicted in the brutal slayings of his three children.
Chairperson Geneviève Boudreau says Allan Schoenborn is to attend a psychiatric clinic for treatment and stay at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam, B.C., if ordered to do so by the board.
Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West is stunned by Schoenborn’s release.
“I feel sick to my stomach,” West said. “It makes me want to vomit. I’m outraged, and my brain can’t understand it.”
He is now worried about what may happen next.
“This is a step in a process that could lead to him getting a full discharge at some point, because that’s what he’ll be after,” he said.
“It is just to me a symptom of a system that is completely ass-backwards.”
West says the BC Review Board needs to be held accountable.
“It just boggles my mind, and it’s yet another example of a system that I think is badly, badly broken and that prioritizes offenders over victims and over public safety.”
Boudreau’s written disposition says Schoenborn must also report any intimate relationships, he must be on good behaviour, and not possess or use any weapons or drugs.
In 2010, Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible for the stabbing and smothering of his three children — aged five, eight and 10 — at their Merritt, B.C., home in 2008.
Schoenborn legally changed his name in May 2021 to Ken John Johnson, a move that led the B.C. government to pass legislation preventing those convicted of serious crimes from changing their names.
Boudreau’s disposition states it will be reviewable in one year’s time.
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