Dr. Juliette Dupré

The accused was found not criminally responsible for mischief, break and enter, and failing to comply with a release order.

At his initial Ontario Review Board hearing, all parties agreed he remained a significant threat to public safety and should be detained at the hospital.

The hospital recommended directly supervised community passes, while the Crown and the accused sought indirectly supervised passes.

The Board found that the accused's medication compliance, lack of recent criminal history prior to the index offences, and cooperative behaviour warranted the less restrictive option of indirectly supervised passes.

The Ontario Review Board conducted an annual review for an accused previously found not criminally responsible for assault offences.

The accused, diagnosed with schizophrenia and cannabis use disorder, had a successful year living in a highly supervised community residence and sought a conditional discharge.

The hospital and Crown sought a continuation of the detention order, citing the accused's fragile mental state and risk of rapid decompensation if he missed medication or used substances.

The Board found the accused continues to represent a significant threat to public safety and ordered the continuation of the detention order, while reducing his reporting requirements to recognize his progress.

The court sentenced K.P. to 16 years in custody for attempted murder and related offences arising from a pattern of intimate partner violence, including multiple attempts to poison the complainant with fentanyl and hiring a hitman to kill her.

The decision details the facts found by the jury, the aggravating and mitigating factors, and the harsh pre-sentence custody conditions experienced by the offender.

The court considered the offender’s mental health and addictions, but found his moral blameworthiness to be high due to planning, deliberation, and lack of remorse.

The sentence was reduced from 21 to 16 years to account for the particularly harsh pre-trial detention conditions.