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Desmond inquiry judge says Veterans Affairs did not share key information
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. — The judge overseeing an inquiry into a triple-murder and suicide carried out by an Afghanistan war veteran says Lionel Desmond faced a large gap in treatment for a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder.
As testimony drew to a close Thursday, provincial court Judge Warren Zimmer also said Veterans Affairs Canada did not share key information about Desmond’s mental illnesses with the last health professional to talk to him before he shot his family and himself on Jan. 3, 2017.
The provincial fatality inquiry, which started last month in Guysborough, N.S., has heard evidence that after Desmond was discharged from a treatment facility in Quebec in August 2016, he received no therapeutic treatment before the killings four months later.
“From August to December (2016), I haven’t seen anything to suggest there had been a real therapy session anywhere, any time,” Zimmer told the inquiry.