Port Coquitlam/Colony Farm/Merritt (with files from Global) – It is an annual review and it always brings up passionate discussion.
The subject – Allan Schoenborn (aka Ken John Johnson)
UPDATE JUNE 1 – From family advocate Dave Teixeira: Lunch break at BC Review Board hearing. The 3x child killer is in the wrong program. He is taking up valuable resources from patients who WANT to get healthy and be part of the community. A conditional discharge should be denied and for the next year and he focuses on drug / alcohol programs, anger management, how to interact with women & children and job skills. Going for walks and having staff chauffeur him around because he does not want to interact with the public is counter to freedoms he is seeking the program he is in.
From Global – Allan Schoenborn is seeking a one-year conditional discharge from the B.C. Review Board, 18 years after killing his three children.
Schoenborn was found guilty of killing five-year-old Cordon, eight-year-old Max and 10-year-old Kaitlynne in their Merritt, B.C., home, but was deemed not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder. For the past few years, Schoenborn has been spending most of his time at a supervised transitional care facility. Advocates for his victims’ family say a one-year discharge is a legal stepping stone towards a full discharge. “The absolute discharge would be he’s removed from the care of the forensic facilities here in B.C., and he’s a free citizen, and back into the community,” Dave Teixeira, a victim’s rights advocate, said.
“The absolute discharge would be he’s removed from the care of the forensic facilities here in B.C., and he’s a free citizen, and back into the community,” Dave Teixeira, a victim’s rights advocate, said.
“What we’ve heard again today is he’s not going through any real treatment programs, he’s refusing any sort of community integration programs, he doesn’t want to get a job. So all those factors, even on their own, would be concerning. Put them all together, combined with someone who has been in institutional care for 15 years and tends towards violence, it’s a big concern.”
A decision on the conditional discharge is expected in the next few days.
UPDATE MARCH 26 2026 – From advocate Dave Teixeira who has been following this case from the start: The annual review hearing for 3x child killer Allan Schoenborn (aka Ken John Johnson) scheduled for 9am, June 1, 2026 at Colony Farm. Unsure what freedoms the killer is seeking.
Schoenborn has been held at the Colony Farm facility since 2010, when he was found not criminally responsible for the 2008 killings of his 10-year-old daughter and two sons aged eight and five in Merritt.
His ex-wife Darcie Clarke, who was tormented by the deaths and then the continuing court cases, died in May 2019.
UPDATE January 2023 – The annual Review Hearing for Allan Schoenborn, who murdered his three children in Merritt in 2008, has has another date for review scheduled for February 17 at Colony Farm.
Schoenborn has been held at the Colony Farm facility since 2010, when he was found not criminally responsible for the 2008 killings of his 10-year-old daughter and two sons aged eight and five in Merritt.
He has tried for some form of travel and freedom a number of times since his conviction, including shorter unescorted leaves into the community in March 2020. That freedom was at the discretion of the Colony Farm director.
His ex-wife Darcie Clarke, who was tormented by the deaths and then the continuing court cases, died in May 2019.
