Triple stabbing sparks changes at B.C. forensic hospital [Video]

A report into a triple stabbing at a festival in Vancouver’s Chinatown last year says the man accused of the crimes had been let out of a psychiatric care facility 99 times in the year prior without incident.

The report, authored by former Abbotsford Police chief Bob Rich, says Blair Donnelly was on his 100th unescorted leave from the B.C. Forensic Psychiatric Hospital on Sept. 10, 2023, when he allegedly stabbed three festival goers at the Light Up Chinatown Festival. 

The external review, ordered by the provincial government after the stabbings, says Donnelly was found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder (NCRMD) for stabbing his daughter to death in 2006 while “suffering from a psychotic delusion that God wanted him to kill her.” 

He also stabbed a friend while out on a day pass in 2009 and attacked a fellow patient with a butter knife shortly after returning …