Kachkar was found not criminally responsible in March 2013 for killing Russell, a 35-year-old husband and father of a two-year-old boy.

Brian Rose recalls his time spent at Whitby’s Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences. He was transferred to the centre three years after being found Not Criminally Responsible for the death of his grandmother back in 2010. Brian was recently named one of five 2017 faces of mental Illness by the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health.

The Ontario Review Board, which decides if and how not criminally responsible patients should be detained, has granted the leave for Richard Kachkar.