Overview
- Justice Eric Gottardi ruled that Donnelly was not criminally responsible because he lacked the capacity to rationally choose his actions.
- The case has been referred to the B.C. Review Board to set a disposition on detention, supervision, or treatment within the statutory timeline.
- Three people were wounded at the Light Up Chinatown festival in September 2023, with two women stabbed in the back and a man stabbed in the arm.
- Donnelly was on unescorted leave from the B.C. Forensic Psychiatric Hospital at the time of the attack.
- Psychiatric evidence cited schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, featuring religious delusions, and Donnelly testified he believed he was prompted by God; he had prior NCR findings in 2006 and 2017.