Review hearing for child-killer Allan Schoenborn being held in Coquitlam

Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible for killing his three young children in Merritt 14 years ago.

A review hearing for B.C. child-killer Allan Schoenborn is being held Wednesday morning in Coquitlam.

Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible for killing his three young children 14 years ago.

He stabbed and smothered his 10-year-old daughter and eight- and five-year-old sons in Merritt in April 2008.

Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible in 2010 on a diagnosis of a delusional disorder. At trial, court heard he killed the children because he believed he was protecting them from an imagined threat of sexual abuse.

The hearing is taking place at the psychiatric hospital on Colony Farm Road, where Schoenborn has been held since 2010.

The man is now in his mid-50s and was granted unescorted overnight leave for up to 28 days in 2022.

This granted leave came after he was previously granted eligibility at the hospital for leave into the community, which was unescorted but not overnight.

Some of the conditions placed on Schoenborn include no non-prescribed drugs or alcohol, no weapons, and no contact with relatives of his victims.