Vince Li, the man who sent shock waves middle of last year for beheading a fellow passenger aboard a Greyhound bus, must continue being confined at the Selkirk Mental Health Center.

Dr. Stanley Yaren made the assessment before the Manitoba review board Monday as part of the periodical review of Li's state of mental health. Yaren is working with Li at the health center, a 252-bed medical facility operated by the Manitoba province.

Although Li has been showing some signs of improvement, Yaren pushed for the highest level of security possible for Li, who attacked and beheaded 22-year old Tim McLean on July 30, 2008.

Yaren said he wants top security for Li, quoted by the Winnipeg Free Press, "Not because I see him as an imminent risk, but because he hasn't been tested in a less-restrictive environment. He has been functioning in an extremely controlled and regimented environment."

Doctors found that Li, at the time he committed the crime, was suffering from untreated schizophrenia and psychiatric delusions. Li claimed hearing orders from God to kill McLean. Because of this assessment, Li was declared by the court not criminally responsible for the death of McLean at the trial in March.

Yaren testified that Li has not any active psychotic symptoms for the past 12 weeks, takes his medicine willingly and has shown some remorse for what he has done.

Li's lawyers agreed with Yaren's recommendation to keep Li with the Selkirk Mental Health Center. McLean's mother, Carol deDelley, cried throughout the most part of the hearing.