Schoenborn found guilty but not criminally responsible on three counts of first degree murder
Posted February 22, 2010 4:16 pm.
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KAMLOOPS (NEWS1130) – Allan Dwayne Schoenborn, 41, has been found guilty, but not criminally responsible of three counts of first degree murder in the deaths of his three children in their Merritt mobile home in April 2008.
Schoenborn twice swore at B.C. Supreme Court Judge Robert Powers as he read his ruling. Schoenborn admitted to killing his children, but defence lawyers argued he shouldn’t be held criminally responsible because he is mentally ill. But the Crown maintained the murders were an act of revenge against the children’s mother.
A forensic psychiatrist who twice interviewed Schoenborn told the trial that the man said he killed his children because he believed they were being sexually abused and he wanted to protect them. There was no evidence in court to suggest that the children were being abused.
