Friday, May 27, 2016

Calgary man found not criminally responsible in fatal stabbing of five

File photo of police inspector de Grood pausing with his wife Susan while making a statement to the press regarding his son Matthew in Calgary.By Eric M. Johnson CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The 24-year-old son of a policeman who fatally stabbed five people at a Calgary house party in 2014 was not criminally responsible, a judge ruled on Wednesday, saying a mental disorder blocked him from knowing his actions were wrong. Justice Eric Macklin, of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, issued his verdict on Wednesday in the first-degree murder trial of Matthew de Grood, a case that has made national headlines, lawyers said.


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