A North Vancouver man found not criminally responsible for the murder of his father will spend another year in a psychiatric hospital.
Jordan Ramsay was sent to the forensic psychiatric hospital in Port Coquitlam last year after he brutally bludgeoned his father to death and seriously injured his mother on Nov. 5, 2011 while the couple was sleeping. Ramsay, who was 28 at the time, was found not criminally responsible because he was suffering from schizophrenia and having psychotic delusions. Health professionals said Ramsay was highly under-medicated for his condition. He had been prescribed a high dose of the anti-psychotic drug risperidone in early 2011, but it was discovered he was taking only a small amount of that dose in the days leading up to the murder.
The B.C. Review Board reassessed custody status of Ramsay on July 22 and determined that he will remain in the hospital for another 12 months. He will be "under the generaldirectionandsupervision of the director of adult forensic psychiatric services." He is allowed escorted access to the community, but not allowed to "acquire, possess or use any firearm," and "must present himself before the Review Board when required."
