4/24/2024 0 Comments Tim mclean greyhound![]() When a psychiatrist goes to these review boards and recommends more freedom, that doesn’t happen lightly. Li’s case, went to the Manitoba Board of Review and recommended more freedom, what everybody seems to forget is he’s been observed now by psychiatrists for almost six years. Today they work far better at treating the symptoms of schizophrenia. Ryan went in, the medications weren’t what they are now. ![]() It depends on how the patient responds to treatment and medication. You can’t compare them in terms of length of time. What are your thoughts on that, considering Ron Ryan was in hospital for almost 17 years? One point that comes up is that Li’s been in the hospital for only six years. There has been a lot of resistance to the news of Vince Li getting released. ![]() If he got out, to me what they were saying was that what happened to us didn’t count. VICE: In a column published in the King’s County Register/Advertiser, you are quoted as saying “I was absolutely determined that this man would never, ever regain his freedom.” What did Ryan’s imprisonment mean to you when you felt that way?Īnne Marie Hagan: In 1979, I had no concept of violence. I called up Anne Marie to talk about Vince Li, how she ever found it possible to forgive the man who murdered her father, and what we can learn from her experience. She says it’s a “sneaky” way for policy makers to keep the mentally-ill-turned-mentally-well locked up for as long as possible (more on that later). The bill is now under review in the Senate.Īnne Marie is opposing the Bill, and the changes it will create in the Criminal Code. It passed in the House of Commons in June, and was reinstated as Bill C-14 last November. The Harper government introduced the act in February 2013 under the name Bill C-54. Right now, the Conservative government is trying to make it tougher for people with mental illness to be released from psychiatric care through the Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act. Manitoba MP Shelly Glover called the decision to allow Vince Li unescorted passes to the Selkirk, Manitoba community “wrong” in this statement.Īt the heart of this polarizing issue is the idea of people with mental illness, like Vince Li, being not criminally responsible (NCR) for their actions. While politicians have not outright said we should send Vince Li back to China (probably because he’s been a citizen since 2006) or keep him locked up forever and beyond in Canada, the recent scuffle between the federal government and the province of Manitoba suggests some are not happy with the idea of reintegrating him into society. And that’s the trend when it comes to the Vince Li story on every comment section from the Winnipeg Free Press to The Huffington Post. They ranged from “deport this fucking lunatic,” to “just shoot him in the head!” There were, of course, comments expressing that we, the public, are gravely misinformed about mental illness, but the aforementioned ‘get rid of him’ types seemed to outnumber the others. When I wrote about Vince Li’s upcoming release, hundreds of readers’ comments poured in on the original VICE story and our post about it on VICE’s Facebook page. Really, she’s one of few anti-hate, "let’s-not-discriminate" voices that are drowning in the company of those who want Vince Li, the greyhound bus beheader/cannibal, to stay locked up forever. She sees in her father’s story, and now that of Tim McLean, something bright: an opportunity for Canadians to learn about mental illness and the potential for those who suffer from it to recover. In spite of what she saw and lived through, Anne Marie came to want one thing for her father’s killer, and now, for Vince Li, too: a second chance. Like Vince Li, Ryan was found not guilty, by reason of insanity, and he stayed locked in a psychiatric facility until Anne Marie and her family met with him in June 1996. Anne Marie, who was 19 at the time, saw the whole thing: the axe marks on both floor and ceiling, and her father’s hand separating from his arm when she knelt beside him on the floor, trying to take his pulse after Ryan ran away.
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