Kimberly Noyes stabbed John Fulton, a 12-year-old autistic boy, to death in 2009. She was found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder. (CBC)

A panel of experts meets Thursday to decide the fate of a woman found not criminally responsible for the slaying of a 12-year-old autistic boy in Grand Forks, B.C.

The B.C. Review Board will consider whether to commit Kimberly Ruth Noyes to a Port Coquitlam psychiatric facility.

Noyes trial established that she stabbed John Fulton to death in her townhouse in the summer of 2009. But she was found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.

At the trial, health professionals and police testified Noyes was delusional and violent and that she had been treated in hospital several times throughout her life.

John Fulton was found dead inside Kimberly Noyes' townhouse in Grand Forks, B.C., in August 2009. (CBC)

A detention order would be in effect for one year, then automatically reviewed every year after that.

The three-person board also has the option of conditional discharge, including probation or outright release.

Crown lawyer Lyle Hillaby told CBC News on Wednesday that he would recommend that Noyes be detained at the psychiatric hospital.

"Obviously, as an agent of the attorney general, my concerns are for public safety generally," Hillaby said. "After such a horrific offence, I don't see any rush to get a person out of hospital."

A decision is expected Thursday.

With files from the CBC's Bob Keating