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WCB standoff accused on hunger strike

Last Updated: Friday, February 26, 2010 | 5:43 PM MT Comments41Recommend16

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Patrick Clayton, 38, is on a hunger strike at the Edmonton Remand Centre. (Courtesy of the Edmonton Journal)The man accused of holding hostages in the Workers' Compensation Board building in downtown Edmonton last October is on a hunger strike.

Nine people were taken hostage after a man entered the building around 8:45 a.m. Oct. 21, and fired a shot. After a day-long standoff, the man surrendered peacefully. No one was injured.

Patrick Clayton, who is being held at the Remand Centre in Edmonton, hasn't eaten in 17 days, said Christine Nardella, who speaks for Alberta's Solicitor General's department. He is taking fluids.

"I'm standing here with my legs shaking, my eyes droopy, pretty light-headed," Clayton told CBC News. "I was 207 pounds when I first started, and I'm under 180."

"I'm assuming I'll be falling on my face here pretty quick, like within the next couple days, and then they'll rush me to the hospital, right?"

Clayton is being held in a separate medical unit, where a nurse is monitoring his health, said Nardella.

Clayton said he was protesting against the treatment he received for his injured knee through the compensation board.

“I’m trying to bring awareness for all of those people who were wrongfully treated through WCB.”

He has been charged with nine counts of unlawful confinement and six counts of pointing a firearm, as well as 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.

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Accused in WCB hostage-taking eating again (Pat Clayton)

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Accused in WCB hostage-taking eating again 11am Click here to email Brent Pushkarenko 3/11/2010 Patrick Clayton's hunger strike is over. He's the man charged after a day-long hostage-taking incident at the WCB building in downtown Edmonton last fall. Clayton says he went 28 days without food -- claiming the last seven were also without water -- because of what he says is a need to make changes to laws to protect injured workers. Clayton says he ended his hunger strike last weekend, after a promise that was made by the director of Edmonton Remand Centre. "That I'd see a specialist about my injuries," Clayton told iNews880 in a phone interview Thursday morning, about the promise that was made. "I'm hoping that the surgeon-general will step in and override the WCB findings about my injuries." Clayton is scheduled to return to court for a preliminary hearing, starting April 9th. He is charged with hostage-taking and fire-arms offences. At last word, he was planning to represent himself, after firing his lawyer earlier this year.(bp)