A Vernon man will spend a year at BC’s Forensic Psychiatric Hospital while his case is reviewed.
Kenneth Barter was found not criminally responsible for killing his friend Nathan Mayrhofer in August 2010.
Barter killed 32-year-old Mayrhofer with a hammer and dismembered his body. The 37-year-old is schizophrenic and while he was off his medication, believed he needed to kill Mayrhofer because he was trying to hypnotize him.
The BC Review Board has ordered Barter’s case be reviewed in one year after his stay at the Port Coquitlam facility.
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