VANCOUVER - The lawyer for the man accused of an attack at a Vancouver Chinatown festival says his client had no motivation other than a direction from God to stab three people and he should be found not criminally responsible.

Glen Orris told a B.C. Supreme Court judge in closing arguments that Blair Donnelly's mental illnesses "rendered him incapable of knowing if his actions were wrong" on Sept. 10, 2023, when two women and a man were injured at the festival.

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