A schizophrenic man who took off another man’s head and ate his body parts on a bus, is allowed to take strolls out on the streets! Wow! Vince Li beheaded a passenger on the bus he was riding because voices in his head told him to do so, 4 years later he is granted permission to leave the hospital because he has responded well to treatment. Â Read the details after the jump!
A man who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada four years ago won his bid to leave the grounds of the mental hospital where he has been kept, a criminal review board ruled on Thursday.
The Criminal Code review board said Vince Li’s treatment team may grant him short escorted trips into Selkirk, Manitoba. The review board said the passes will start at 30 minutes and increase incrementally to a maximum of full days.
Li, 44, was found not criminally responsible for the July 2008 death of 22-year-old Tim McLean, a carnival worker who was sitting next to Li on a bus
At Li’s trial in March of 2009, a judge was told that he was an untreated schizophrenic who was suffering from auditory hallucinations commanding him to kill McLean, a stranger.
On Thursday, the board said the passes should only be granted if Li’s treatment team believes his condition is stable and that it would be ‘appropriate and safe for him to leave the locked ward.’
He will have to be escorted at all times by a nurse and a peace officer who will be wearing street clothes to avoid drawing attention to LI..
‘It’s terrible. It’s disgusting,’ Nadine McLean, the victim’s stepmother, said Thursday after she learned about the decision. ‘It’s kind of a waste going to the review board every year when he’s going to get whatever he asks for.
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