Alberta’s top court has reserved its decision on a request for more freedoms for a mentally ill man who stabbed five people to death at a house party more than a decade ago.

The lawyer for Matthew de Grood argued in court that the man should receive the help as recommended by his treatment team.

Jacqueline Petrie said Alberta’s Criminal Code Review Board last year refused some freedoms and modified others.

She said the board continues to describe her client as a risk to the public and focuses too much about what happened in 2014.

“That was then. This is now,” Petrie told the three-member panel with the Court of Appeal of Alberta on Wednesday.

“The board is putting on blinders.”

De Grood, 33, did not appear at the hearing.

He was 22 when he attacked Zackariah Rathwell, Jordan Segura,

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