Schizophrenic woman who killed stranger in Toronto financial district goes free - National Post

Rohinie Bisesar in an undated photo. Photo by Courtesy of Karl Gutowski/FileArticle contentThe schizophrenic woman who committed a notorious killing of an innocent stranger in a downtown Toronto Shoppers Drug Mart more than 10 years ago has been granted an absolute discharge, freeing her entirely from the restrictions of the justice system.

In 2015, Rohinie Bisesar, then 40 and now 51, stabbed Rosemarie Junor in the cosmetics section of the drug store in Toronto’s financial district underground PATH, following the malicious command hallucinations of a voice in her head she called the “entity.”

Junor, 28, who also went by “Kim,” was newly married and worked in a downtown private medical clinic. She died five days later in hospital of a single stab wound by a small kitchen knife that pierced her heart.

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“While the tragedy cannot be undone and will always be on our minds, Ms. Bisesar no longer is a significant threat to the safety of the public, and the law requires that an absolute discharge must be imposed. Ms. Bisesar’s commitment to her present health has substantially contributed to this result,” reads the Ontario Review Board’s new decision.

It was a horrific story that transfixed the city with its incomprehensible violence from an unlikely offender. Bisesar was a tiny woman, 4 foot 11 and 85 pounds, whose life appeared to have recently and abruptly unraveled from professional success to the point of spontaneous insane homicide.

She had an MBA from a top Ontario school and had worked in a major financial firm, but she had been hospitalized a year before the killing after threatening her parents with arson and expressing bizarre paranoia. Unemployed, she continued to frequent the financial district and became a familiar regular at downtown coffee shops, neatly dressed and working on a laptop.

Then, on a Friday mid-afternoon in December, according to facts recorded at her 2018 trial, the voice in her head said “What is the worse thing you can do?” and told her to get a knife. She travelled a dozen subway stops uptown to a discount store to buy one, a small kitchen knife, then returned downtown.