The man accused of stabbing three people in Chinatown two years ago has been found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder.

Blair Donnelly, 66, pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated assault after he admitted to the stabbings at the Light Up Chinatown festival in 2023, while he was on unescorted leave from the B.C. Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam.

Two women were stabbed in the back and one man was stabbed in the arm.

Donnelly has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and his lawyer argued that Donnelly’s mental illness “rendered him incapable of knowing if his actions were wrong.”

The judge-only trial heard that Donnelly “met Christ” at age 22, which he described as a born-again experience that turned him away from a life of drugs and partying and tow

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