Man who beheaded seatmate on Greyhound bus may get expanded hospital privileges
Posted May 30, 2011 4:55 pm.
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A man who beheaded a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba may soon be allowed extended walks on the grounds of his mental hospital.
Dr. Steven Kremer says Vince Li is responding well to treatment and should be allowed more freedoms, phased in over several months.
Kremer is recommending to a review board that Li be allowed supervised walks on the grounds of the secure hospital in Selkirk between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.
Last fall, he was allowed to start taking 15-minute walks with security guards at his side.
Li was found not criminally responsible for the gruesome killing of Tim McLean onboard a Greyhound bus near Portage la Prairie, Man., in 2008.
A judge found him to be an untreated schizophrenic and sentenced him to a mental heath centre.
Li remained inside a locked wing of the facility for more than two years.
