VANCOUVER — The lawyer for the man accused of stabbing three people at a Vancouver Chinatown festival says evidence presented at his B.C. Supreme Court trial shows his client should be found not criminally responsible for the attack.

Blair Donnelly has pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated assault and attended court today carrying a bible.

He was on unescorted leave from the B.C. Forensic Psychiatric Hospital on Sept. 10, 2023, when two women and a man were injured at the festival.

His lawyer Glen Orris told the judge in closing arguments that both Donnelly and a psychiatrist told the court he had been suffering from religious delusions the day of the stabbings.

Donnelly has admitted the crimes, but Orris says his state of mind at the time is the issue before the court.

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