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A man who beheaded a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba has been granted the right to leave his mental hospital without an escort.

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The Criminal Code Review Board is allowing Vince Li unsupervised outings from the Selkirk Mental Health Centre into the nearby city of Selkirk. The outings are to start at 30 minutes and increase to full-day trips.

Until now, Li has only been allowed to leave the hospital with security guards or staff members. Li is also allowed to visit Lockport, Winnipeg and area beaches, but those outings must continue to be supervised.

Vince Li, 44, was found not criminally responsible for the July 2008 killing of Tim McLean near Portage la Prairie. A judge later ruled Li was suffering hallucinations from untreated schizophrenia at the time of the unprovoked attack.

“I bought a knife at Canadian Tire. I bought it for any emergency for the journey to protect myself from the aliens. I was really scared. . . . I believed he was an alien. The voices told me to kill him. That he would kill me or others. I do not believe this now,” Li told Chris Summerville, CEO of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada in 2012.