Mug shot/artist court rendering of Merritt child killer Allen Schoenborn/via Dave Teixeira

Merritt child killer Allen Schoenborn is going to remain in-custody for at least another year.

A review hearing for Schoenborn’s potential freedoms, which had been scheduled for Friday, has been postponed by his lawyer.

Clarke family spokesperson Dave Teixeira told NL Newsday with Brett Mineer on Thursday it’s not clear why the review has been postponed.

“In the past when this has happened, it’s been because Schoenborn has either acted-up, had some violent outrages,” noted Teixeira.  “In one year that it was delayed, we found out later that he had some physical altercations with staff members.”

However, Teixeira suggests the last-minute notice from his lawyer is an added burden on the victim’s family.

“Forcing his family… forcing Mike Clarke and the whole Clarke family to go through a hearing every single year, to relive the trauma of 2008, doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, when clearly Allan Schoenborn is not ready to be put out.”

Schoenborn was convicted of killing his 10-year-old daughter and two sons, aged eight and five, in Merritt in April 2008.

He was later found not criminally responsible by way of a mental disorder in 2010.

Schoenborn has been held at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam, commonly known as Colony Farm, since then.

Last year, the BC Review Board granted Schoenborn limited day parole.

–With files from Brett Mineer