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An Ontario man who beat his parents to death with a golf club has been found not criminally responsible (NCR) due to a mental disorder.

Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy found Monday that Kyle Sequeira was unable to access the knowledge that what he was doing was morally wrong when he engaged in the frenzied 2021 killing of his parents, Lynette and Francis Sequeira. Sequeira was suffering from untreated schizophrenia at the time.

“What Mr. Sequeira did to his mother and his father was such a grossly disproportionate reaction to his anger that it is almost impossible to ascribe it to a rational mind,” she said.

“This goes far beyond not being in his right mind.”

However, Molloy found Sequeira guilty of an aggravated assault that occurred more than two years before he killed his parents — a case the court heard was tied to their deaths.

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“The surrounding circumstances were quite different,” she said.

Sequeira had been on trial for the …

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