Beheader's fate won't be publicized

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May 27 (UPI) -- The Canadian public won't be told whether a man who beheaded a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus last year is freed, Manitoba legal officials said.

Vincent Li was found not criminally responsible for the unprovoked machete attack on Tim McLean on a bus headed for Winnipeg last July. Li is in a secure psychiatric facility now, and Monday the provincial Criminal Code Review Board will meet to determine if he should be kept or released, the National Post reported.

However, board Chairman John Stefaniuk told the Post Manitoba's laws on privacy are stricter than most other provinces.

"Our current practice has been to treat (our) decisions as being private and only available to the parties involved and to the treatment team," he said. "But we're looking to see to what extent that restricts our ability to release decisions or release reasons for decisions."

Board spokeswoman Bev Scharikow, said Manitoba only releases decisions to prosecutors, the treatment team, the designated hospital, the patient and his lawyers. Family members of victims are not included in the disclosure, she said.