Judge orders not criminally responsible assessment for Etobicoke man who killed parents

Superior Court Justice Joan Barrett has ordered a not criminally liable (NCR) appraisal for an Etobicoke antheral who killed his parents and attempted to termination his brother.

One week aft Barrett ruled that Alpha Henry fatally stabbed his parents Veronica and Colin Henry successful their Rexdale flat successful September 2022, earlier trying to termination his younger member Daniel, defence lawyer Jamie Kopman made an exertion for an NCR assessment.

Kopman told the tribunal that “there was a important magnitude of grounds to code the threshold of tenable grounds that Mr. Henry suffered from a intelligence unwellness to marque him NCR.”

Defence pointed to an serviceman who testified that helium saw Alpha successful the neighbourhood anterior to the deadly onslaught and believed helium was an emotionally disturbed person, the word constabulary utilized to notation to idiosyncratic suffering from intelligence wellness issues.

His member Daniel besides testified a fewer weeks anterior to the attack, arsenic helium and his begetter were driving to and from church, they saw Alpha walking. Daniel testified they offered him a thrust and Alpha seemed aggravated and began swearing astatine them. Daniel said helium didn’t cognize why.

Kopman besides said Alpha’s behaviour successful infirmary conscionable aft constabulary arrived astatine the flat and arrested him suggested helium whitethorn person been suffering from a intelligence disorder. An serviceman wearing a body-worn camera captured him telling a caregiver that his parents were his exigency contact, suggesting helium believed they were inactive alive.

Later, helium tin beryllium seen seemingly proceeding a dependable successful hospital, nether the content it is his begetter speaking.

Assistant Crown lawyer Michael Wilson told Barrett the Crown was primitively going to reason the exertion for the NCR due to the fact that the grounds suggests that Alpha was “very overmuch alert of the quality of his acts, the wrongfulness of it and covered up what helium had done.”

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Wilson explained the Crown was consenting to the appraisal because, aft doing research, learned that the threshold for an NCR appraisal is highly low. “We were incapable to find immoderate level wherever grounds of a intelligence information was denied. We don’t contradict individuals a defence careless of the charges,” said Wilson.

Wilson argued that Alpha instantly disposed of items, changed his apparel and cleaned up the flat aft the fatal stabbing successful September 2022. He said Alpha past texted his member posing arsenic his parent to find retired erstwhile Daniel was returning from his travel to Japan and erstwhile his program to termination his member failed, helium instantly pivoted to placing the blasted connected him.

“All of this speaks to idiosyncratic who has a precise operating caput and understands the wrongfulness of his actions,” Wilson concluded.

The forensic psychiatrist who volition measure Alpha Henry is not disposable until March. A day for an NCR proceeding volition beryllium scheduled successful April.