Man accused of killing his father is match to face trial, lawyer says

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Homicide suspect Vincent Fong stays match to face trial, his lawyer advised a Calgary court docket Friday.

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Defence counsel Katherin Beyak mentioned the most recent testing on her shopper made on the defence request, decided he his able to understanding the authorized proceedings in opposition to him.

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“We acquired a report late (Thursday) that Mr. Fong is match to face trial,” Beyak advised Court docket of King’s Bench Justice Wille deWit.

She mentioned she has been in touch with Crown prosecutor Margot Engley about setting the case down for trial as soon as once more.

“We’re going to want to test the physician’s availability to be able to set a trial date,” Beyak mentioned.

She requested deWit to adjourn the case for 2 weeks “within the hope that we are able to e-book within the interim.”

In Could, 2019, Fong, 40, was deemed unfit to face trial in reference to the Jan. 9, 2019, second-degree homicide of his father, Shu Kwan Fong.

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On the time psychiatrist Dr. David Tano mentioned Fong was unaware his father was even useless, recurrently asking his mom if his father was recovering at residence.

Provincial court docket Decide Bruce Fraser discovered Fong was incapable of understanding the authorized course of.

“Though he understands the cost, he doesn’t perceive the idea of dying and inquires of his mom if his dad, the sufferer, is recovering and if he’s nonetheless residence,” Fraser mentioned.

However in 2020, an Alberta Assessment Board discovered Fong was then match to face trial and his prosecution resumed.

Throughout a July, 2020, court docket look, Dr Oluyemisi Ajeh testified Fong had come to grasp the idea of dying and the nuances of the authorized system.

Regardless of Fong’s health to face a jury, Crown prosecutor Shane Parker ask that the accused stay in custody on the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre.

Ajeh advised a separate listening to in September, 2020, that ritualistic behaviour by Fong, who has extreme autism, akin to licking issues or touching individuals for luck, might return if he was uncovered to a irritating setting, such because the Calgary Remand Centre.

The case is again in court docket April 14.

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