A British Columbia father who killed his three children while suffering psychosis has been granted escorted outings into the community, a privilege giving him limited freedom seven years after the murders.

Allan Schoenborn received the B.C. Review Board’s approval even as the Crown warned panel members to heed government legislation empowering them to hold mentally ill offenders indefinitely.

Immediately upon receiving the decision, Darcie Clarke, the children’s mother, said in a statement that her family will work with Crown to apply to B.C. Supreme Court to label the 47-year-old a “high risk” offender.

“This is uncharted territory … Our hope is that the Supreme Court will look at the facts without the review board bias and find Allan a high-risk.”

The B.C. Review Board is governed under federal jurisdiction.

Schoenborn’s lawyer has said in the past that approval of outings for his client could make it more difficult for the province to persuade the court to seek the designation.