Colony Farm

• Child-killer Allan Schoenborn changes name, fights to keep new identity secret

  Allan Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible for killing his three young children in Merritt, B.C., 14 years ago.

  Crime

  Apr 17
  
• In wake of Chinatown stabbing, victims’ families question psychiatric releases

  Rebecca Mayrhofer and other victim advocates have long sought reform of the system handling offenders deemed not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder.

  Crime

  Sep 15, 2023
  
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• Vancouver Chinatown triple-stabbing suspect in court for second appearance 

  Blair Evan Donnelly was arrested and charged after three people were reportedly stabbed while attending the Light Up Chinatown festival on Sunday.

  Crime

  Sep 15, 2023
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• Ex-Abbotsford police chief to probe release of man accused in Chinatown stabbings

  Bob Rich's priority will be determining how the man was released from a psychiatric facility against recommendations, and whether there are others in the same circumstance.

  Crime

  Sep 14, 2023
• Accused Chinatown festival stabber was still considered ‘significant threat’: Documents

  The decision was made this past April in the case of Blair Evan Donnelly, who is a patient at the forensic psychiatric hospital in Coquitlam.

  Crime

  Sep 14, 2023
• Two men missing from B.C. psychiatric hospital located safe

  Eric Sabbadin, 21, was reported missing just after 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Michael Gardner, 39, was reported missing 20 minutes later. They were wanted on Canada-wide warrants.

  Canada

  Sep 5, 2022
• Man unlawfully at large from Colony Farm hospital located: RCMP

  Mounties say The Cao Phan, 59, was last seen around 2 p.m. on Wednesday at the B.C. Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, commonly known as Colony Farm.

  Crime

  Apr 28, 2022
• RCMP searching for man unlawfully at large from B.C. psychiatric hospital

  Police in Coquitlam, B.C. say John Berg was out on a day pass from Colony Farm but failed to return as scheduled Friday morning. 

  Crime

  Jan 9, 2021
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• Psychiatric patient located after walking away from Colony Farm forensic hospital

  Christopher Thomas Askey, 51, was reported overdue on a day pass from the facility just after 7 p.m., Saturday.

  Crime

  Sep 13, 2020
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• Patient unlawfully at large after failing to return to Colony Farm hospital

  Ajia Richardson, 36, was reported missing on Wednesday, May 20, at 7 p.m.

  May 21, 2020