Tenzin Norbu admits to lighting woman on fire on TTC bus, found not criminally responsible [Video]

The man who set a woman on fire at a Toronto transit station two years ago has been found not criminally responsible for her death and will now be detained in a hospital setting.

The decision was handed to Tenzin Norbu by Ontario Superior Court Justice Maureen Forestell in Toronto on Tuesday. Norbu was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Nyima Dolma in July 2022 after dousing the 28-year-old woman in lighter fluid and igniting the substance aboard a bus at Kipling Station.

At the outset of his trial on Monday, both Crown prosecutors and Norbu’s lawyers asked Forestell to find Norbu not criminally responsible for Dolma’s death, arguing that a “long-standing” psychotic state rendered him incapable of fully understanding what he’d done.

In her decision, read out to the court on Tuesday, Forestell accepted the joint submission.

“I have concluded […] that Mr. Norbu was not criminally responsible on account …