Psycho Gay Man Gets Life for Dismembering and Eating Lover
Luka Magnotta murdered his gay lover, dismembered him, had sex with the body parts, and then mailed the body parts to the Canadian government. Now he will rot away in a Quebec prison.
From the CBC here:
Luka Magnotta has received an automatic life sentence for first-degree murder, with no possibility of parole for 25 years. He was sentenced to another 19 years for the four other charges he was convicted on.
On their eighth day of deliberations on Tuesday, the 12-person jury returned a verdict in the killing and dismemberment of Chinese engineering student Jun Lin in 2012.
Magnotta, 32, a former Ontario resident, pleaded not guilty to the five charges, arguing he suffers from a mental illness, but he admitted to the physical acts of killing and dismembering Lin, and sending his body parts with menacing notes to political parties and schools.
Lin, 33, a Chinese national, was studying at Montreal’s Concordia University when he met Magnotta. According to what the accused told psychiatrists hired by the defence to assess him, Lin responded to an ad Magnotta posted on Craigslist looking for kinky sex.
Lin’s body parts were found in a suitcase outside Magnotta’s apartment, in packages sent to the headquarters of political parties and two Vancouver schools, and in a Montreal park.
After an international manhunt, Magnotta was arrested in June 2012 at an internet café in Berlin. A German police officer testified Magnotta was looking at an Interpol photo of himself prior to his arrest.
During the 10 weeks of testimony, the jury saw a graphic video, which had been posted online, depicting parts of the crime, as well as additional footage found on Magnotta’s computer.
The jury also saw surveillance video of Lin walking into Magnotta’s apartment building the night he was killed and, in the hours that followed, plenty of images of Magnotta cleaning up and running errands, occasionally while wearing his victim’s clothes.
What a sicko. Canada needs a death penalty.
