‘He could come for me again’: stabbing victim fears for her life if court removes hospital attacker’s high

It has been four years since Trevor Farley nearly killed Candyce Szkwarek during a frenzied knife attack inside Seven Oaks General Hospital, but it still feels like it happened yesterday, the now-retired nursing manager told a judge Thursday.

“Not a day goes by that I don’t think of what he did to me,” Szkwarek said. “I struggle to fall asleep and often wake up reliving the attack.”

Two years ago, Farley was found not criminally responsible for the October 2021 attack on Szkwarek and the slayings of his parents Stuart Farley and Judy Swain in separate attacks earlier that same day.

The not criminally responsible finding by King’s Bench Justice Ken Champagne was accompanied by an order that Farley be designated a high-risk accused — a first in Manitoba since former prime minister Stephen