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A Calgary man found not criminally responsible for the stabbing deaths of five young people four years ago told a review board he is sorry for what he’s done and will do everything he can to make amends.

“I have done a terrible wrong,” Matthew de Grood told the Alberta Review Board Friday.

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“Five wonderful people lost their lives … I desperately wish it had never happened.”

His medical team at the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre has recommended that the review board extend de Grood’s privileges to include supervised trips to malls near the facility and to programs in Calgary.

Dr. Sergio Santana told the board that de Grood continues to be “a model patient” who is doing all he can to manage his illness.

But family members of the five victims said in a statement following the hearing that they are urging the review board “to recognize the risk of him being released into society in any capacity is far too great.”