VANCOUVER — The lawyer for the man accused of an attack at a Vancouver Chinatown festival says his client had no motivation other than a direction from God to stab three people and he should be found not criminally responsible.

Glen Orris told a B.C. Supreme Court judge in closing arguments that Blair Donnelly’s mental illnesses “rendered him incapable of knowing if his actions were wrong” on Sept. 10, 2023, when two women and a man were injured at the festival.

Donnelly has pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated assault and attended court Thursday carrying a bible.

His trial heard he was on unescorted leave from the B.C. Forensic Psychiatric Hospital on the day of the attack.

Donnelly testified earlier in the trial that he had initially planned to bike to a coffee shop in Co

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