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Accused WCB gunman to get psychiatric assessment

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 | 2:36 PM MT

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The man accused of taking nine people hostage at the Workers' Compensation Board building in Edmonton last month has been sent to Alberta Hospital for a psychiatric assessment.

Patrick Clayton, 38, will undergo the assessment after a provincial court judge granted a request from his new lawyer on Monday.

Clayton faces nine counts of unlawful confinement, six counts of pointing a firearm and charges of possession of an offensive weapon dangerous to the public, careless use and storage of a firearm and use of a firearm during the commission of an offence.

At the court appearance Monday, Clayton's lawyer, Peter Royal, argued his client might have been mentally disturbed at the time of the alleged offences making him not criminally responsible for what happened that day.

Clayton will be back in court on Dec. 18.

On Oct. 21, a man with a rifle entered the WCB building at 107th Street and 99th Avenue at 8:30 a.m. local time and took nine people hostage. Hostages were released by one-by-one throughout the day, until the man surrendered around 6:18 p.m.

No one was hurt.

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