Recovery plans for accused in Vancouver knife attack were put in probation officers’ hands

The man accused of killing one man and severing the hand of another in a knife attack last week had his recent mental-health recovery plans placed in the hands of probation officers by judges, audio recordings of court proceedings show.Over the past two years, Brendan McBride, a 34-year-old who grew up in North Vancouver and had worked as a forklift driver, bounced between overstretched hospitals and police custody as he grappled with a cocaine and alcohol addiction, as well as anxiety and depression, the recordings obtained by the Globe and Mail demonstrate.