PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. – A young man who viciously attacked child killer Allan Schoenborn and a staff member at a psychiatric hospital near Coquitlam, B.C., will have to spend another 24 months there.
Just one day after the 22-year-old man identified only as M.P. pleaded guilty to beating Schoenborn with a billiard ball last April, he severely injured a hospital staff member with a homemade shank.
In her judgement, provincial court Judge Marion Buller Bennett says there was bad will between Schoenborn and the other patients at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital before Schoenborn was seriously hurt with the pool ball.
Schoenborn murdered his daughter and two sons, aged five, eight and 10, in their Merritt, B.C., trailer home in April 2008, but was found not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.
The hospital staff member, who was attacked with a shank made of two pieces of metal from the man’s eye glass frames, received several fractures to his face and lost four teeth.
M.P. was already serving time at the psychiatric hospital for theft and will now serve an extra six months for his attack on Schoenborn and 18 months for the assault on the staff member.
Local news from metronews.ca/vancouver
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