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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

He will get compliance monitoring. It says so in the article.

A couple of things to keep in mind:

- It's not common to go from full-time committed patient to absolute discharge, especially with high-profile cases such as this one. People should understand that he's already living in an Edmonton group home. He would then be 'transferred' to live with this parents, with constant monitoring, and under a full warrant. This isn't "let him wander out unattended and unmonitored". If he's going to do normal things like work, staying with caregivers, being observed and scheduled for his medication, that's about the best you could ask for for "absolute discharge" in a case like this.

- He's going to continue to be close to chest with his psychiatrist. If he is absolutely discharged, it means he doesn't have to go before the criminal review board. He still needs to be intimately monitored by his psychiatrist and take medication, which he has shown during his hospital time to be fully compliant with.

- While de Grood's actions were horrific, there are plenty of people with undiagnosed and/or untreated psychosis and schizophrenia walking the streets every day. In de Grood's case, he went from absolutely no medical support to showing rehabilitation through the proper channels. This is a person who also has done much better than other NCR patients who have also committed crimes and have shown little to no ability to rehabilitate that are in the system.

I know the emotions that are involved with a case like this because of the severity of the actions, but the review board would not be allowing this if they didn't see precedent in others suffering from similar schizophrenia who also have committed crimes and have made rehabilitation milestones.

I'm of the opinion with the right management and careful steps, reintegration isn't the worst option. Vince Li has reintegrated into society and so far, everything appears OK as far as we know.

Psychosis is no joke and those who go untreated/undiagnosed really have no control over their actions. NCR is not a criminal outcome taken on or decided lightly.

At the end of the process you describe above in the case of an absolute discharge there will be no more monitoring. He can choose to go off medications. He can choose to stop seeing a psychiatrist.