Man now charged with N.S. murder 'graduated' from Wellness Court in 2020: 'Kudos to you'

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in Springfield, Annapolis County, “graduated” from Dartmouth Wellness Court in December 2020 after pleading guilty to assaulting a female Mountie with a knife.in Albert’s murder. On Dec. 17, 2020, he walked out of Dartmouth Wellness Court a free man after pleading guilty to assaulting RCMP Const. Adree Zahara with a knife in January 2019.

After the 2019 stabbing, the RCMP said they responded to a report of a man who went to the Cobequid Community Health Centre indicating he was a harm to himself and others, then left the building. When RCMP officers located him in a vehicle in a nearby parking lot, Buttar got out andButtar applied to take his case to Wellness Court in June 2019.

“Generally, we’re always learning, we’re always looking to see – I'm not saying that lessons need to be learned in this case – but generally that’s something we do as a team anyway. We’re always reflecting; that’s part of the nature of the process.” “When somebody is with our program, they have certain expectations,” she said. “They have to attend all their appointments, like with their clinicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, whoever that might be. They have to take their medications as prescribed. ... We can access the health records. So, we see whether they’re attending their appointments or not. We see if they’re picking up their prescriptions or not.

 

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