A tribunal tasked with determining the mental fitness of a man charged in the random killing of an Abbotsford high school student has ordered an independent psychiatric assessment.
The B.C. Review Board adjourned any decision on Gabriel Brandon Klein’s fitness to stand trial for a 30-day period in order to gain greater clarity on his current mental state.
The decision followed a hearing that heard conflicting and somewhat muddied evidence about Klein’s progress since a judge declared him unfit in April.
Overweight and unkempt, Klein shuffled slowly into the hearing room on the grounds of Port Coquitlam’s Forensic Psychiatric Hospital on the
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