PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. – The B.C. man who murdered his three his children is apparently hated both inside and outside the forensic hospital where he’s serving time for their deaths.
The information that Allan Schoenborn isn’t liked by his fellow inmates at the Coquitlam, B.C., psychiatric hospital was revealed in a provincial court judgment where a fellow inmate was sentenced for a vicious attack on Schoenborn and another staff member.
The young man, identified only as M.P., pleaded guilty to beating Schoenborn with a billiard ball, injuring Schoenborn’s head and arm.
“There was bad will between Mr. Schoenborn and other patients at the hospital. As a result, M.P. and his co-accused … assaulted Mr. Schoenborn,” B.C. provincial court Judge Marion Buller Bennett wrote in her recently released judgment.
Schoenborn was kicked and beaten with the pool ball just a week after a review board ruled the killer could have escorted leave from the hospital where he was being held.
He murdered his daughter and two sons in their Merritt, B.C., trailer home in April 2008, but was found not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.
He stabbed his 10-year-old daughter Kaitlynne and then smothered Max, 8 and Cordon, 5. He left their bodies in the home for their mother, Darcie Clarke, to find when she arrived home.
The decision to allow the escorted leave by the B.C. Review Board just 14 months after he was ordered detained sparked public anger.
It also prompted B.C.’s attorney general to seek a review of the federal rules governing the treatment of those found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.
Shortly after Schoenborn’s hearing, new information came out that the children’s mother lived in the same area. Schoenborn waived his right to take escorted leave.
The 22-year-old man who attacked Schoenborn was in the institution for theft and will now have to spend another 24 months there.
The court documents show a day after pleading guilty to the assault on Schoenborn, M.P. severely injured the hospital staff member after attacking him with a shank made of two pieces of metal from his eye glass frames.
The worker received several fractures to his face and lost four teeth.
M.P. also pleaded guilty to that attack.
Buller Bennett sentenced the man to six months for the attack on Schoenborn and 18 months for the assault on the staff member.
“M.P. is currently a resident of the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital and he will be in a similar institution for quite some time,” Buller Bennett said in her judgment released recently on line.
The judge noted that M.P. was sorry for what he did and knew at the time that what he was doing was wrong.
“As a result of his guilty pleas, we have not had to have trials that would have been very difficult to conduct, to say the least,” she concluded.
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