A psychiatric hospital has completed an evaluation of a man accused of killing two young children by driving a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare, but its contents will remain sealed, a court heard on Wednesday.
Montreal’s Philippe-Pinel institute was mandated to evaluate Pierre Ny St-Amand’s mental state at the time of his alleged crimes on Feb. 8. Both the Crown and the defence told a Laval, Que., courtroom on Wednesday that they had only received the 22-page report earlier that morning, and they asked that the case be postponed until June 13 to allow them to evaluate its contents.
St-Amand was judged fit to stand trial on Feb. 24 after an initial psychiatric evaluation, but his lawyer, Julien Lespérance Hudon, asked for another assessment to help determine whether the accused should be held criminally responsible for his actions….