A forensic hospital has placed more restrictions on Udo Haan, the Ontario Review Board says.

Haan was found not criminally responsible (NCR) for fatally strangling his wife, Edra Haan, with a rope in 2018 and then triggering an explosion that obliterated their Kitchener house.

Haan, now 65, was recently charged with three counts of disobeying an order made by the review board, which has jurisdiction over people found NCR due to a mental disorder.

The offences are alleged to have happened on April 18 in St. Thomas.

Haan had been held at the Southwest Centre for Forensic Mental Health Care in St. Thomas, but then lived in an apartment near the hospital.

The hospital recently decided to “significantly” increase restrictions on his liberty, said Gavin MacKenzie, general counsel for the

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