Kaitlynne Schoenborn, 10; Max Schoenborn, 8; and Cordon Schoenborn, 5, are shown in a composite image taken from framed picture at the memorial wall in Merritt, B.C on Thursday April 10, 2008.
Allan Schoenborn, convicted of murdering his three young children two years ago, congratulated a psychiatric panel that rejected his bid for conditional release.
"I think you decided right for me and the community," Mr. Schoenborn told the three-member panel which heard four hours of evidence Tuesday at the secure psychiatric hospital where Mr. Schoenborn has been living since he was convicted in Februrary.
Mr. Schoenborn had said he wanted a conditional release so he could seek income assistance, live by the Fraser River and work on houseboats.
Bernd Walter, speaking for the panel, rejected the option.
"You continue to pose a significant risk to the public," he told Mr. Schoenborn, sitting across a boardroom table from him.
"We feel we have no option but to continue to detain you at this hospital."
Earlier the panel heard excerpts from a victim-impact statement prepared for their consideration by Mr. Schoenborn's estranged spouse, Darcie Clarke.
"I will not be safe if Allan gets out. He will come looking for me and my family."
In February, Supreme Court Justice Robert Powers ruled Mr. Schoenborn not criminally responsible due to mental illness for the April, 2008 deaths of his children, aged five to 10, at the mobile home in Merritt, B.C where they lived with their mother.
Mr. Schoenborn, sitting at a boardroom table, with board members, said he would like to return to the community.
Dr. Johann Brink, clinical-services director at the hospital, told the hearing Mr. Schoenborn had expressed a desire to go into Coquitlam for coffee with an ankle bracelet for security.
But Dr. Brink suggested that was not a good idea.
"He continues to pose a significant threat to the safety of the public," said Dr. Brink, acknowledging that Mr. Schoenborn, sitting two seats away at the table, might not like to hear this.