B.C. makes changes after review into release of man accused in Chinatown stabbings [Video]

A report into a triple stabbing at a festival in Vancouver’s Chinatown last year says that while the accused had been let out of his psychiatric hospital 99 times without incident in the years prior, an attack like the one that occurred was “more likely to occur at some point than not.”

The province hired former Abbotsford police chief Bob Rich to conduct an external review into the Sept. 10, 2023 attack that left three people injured at the Light Up Chinatown Festival.

Blair Donnelly has been charged with three counts of assault with a weapon in the incident and has been returned to the psychiatric hospital in Port Coquitlam where he has lived for the past 17 years.

The report concludes policies at B.C.’s Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, better known as Colony Farm, “were generally being adhered to,” but makes several recommendations on how to handle “higher-risk patients” in the interest of public safety.

The province says it has accepted all …