Thread: Canada judge: Chinese Immigrant not responsible 4 beheading

Canada judge: Man not responsible for beheading
Mar 5 12:32 PM US/Eastern
Breitbart.com

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) - A Canadian judge ruled Thursday that a man accused of beheading and cannibalizing a fellow Greyhound bus passenger is not criminally responsible due to mental illness.

The decision means Chinese immigrant Vince Li will be treated in a mental institution instead of going to prison. The family of victim Tim McLean dismissed the trial as a "rubber stamp" that allows Li to get away with murder.

"A crime was still committed here, a murder still occurred," said Carol deDelley, McLean's mother. "There was nobody else on that bus holding a knife, slicing up my child."

The judge said Li should not be held criminally accountable for stabbing McLean dozens of times last July and dismembering his body while horrified passengers fled.

Justice John Scurfield said Li's attack was "grotesque" and "barbaric" but "strongly suggestive of a mental disorder."

"He did not appreciate the actions he committed were morally wrong. He believed he was acting in self-defense," Scurfield said.

Both the prosecution and the defense argued Li can't be held responsible because Li was suffering from schizophrenia and believed God wanted him to kill McLean because the young man was a force of evil.

He will be institutionalized without a criminal record and will be reassessed every year by a mental health review board to determine if he is fit for release into the community.

DeDelley said a yearly hearing is ridiculous, and that Li should be locked up for the rest of his life.

Li's trial barely lasted two days and only heard from two witnesses, both psychiatrists, who testified he is mentally ill.

That Li killed the 22-year-old carnival worker was never in question at the trial. Li has admitted he killed McLean but pleaded not guilty.

Witnesses said Li attacked McLean unprovoked as their bus traveled at night along a desolate stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway.

An agreed statement of facts between the prosecution and defense detailed how passengers stood outside the bus as Li stabbed McLean dozens of times and beheaded and mutilated his body. Finding himself locked inside the bus, Li finally escaped through a window and was arrested.

Li then apologized and pleaded with police to kill him.

Police said McLean's body parts were found throughout the bus in plastic bags, and the victim's ear, nose and tongue were found in Li's pocket.

A psychiatrist called by the prosecution Wednesday testified that Li cut up McLean's body because he believed that he would come back to life and take revenge.

McLean's family is vowing to turn their attention to fighting the law that allows people who are found not criminally responsible to be released into the community once they are deemed well, without serving a minimum sentence in jail.

DeDelley said her son didn't die in vain. His death highlights concerns about the justice system, she said.

"Now people are aware that there is a problem," she said.

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Vince Li should be tried as a criminal, convicted, and quickly executed and buried in a landfill so he will never pose a danger to any citizen, institution employees, or taxpayers again. Vince Li should also be executed in the interest of justice and in the interest of giving the victim's family some closure.

That family will never have a moment of peace the rest of their lives that this guy is alive, breathing free air, and looking at possible release every year into the future.

And how many millions of dollars will be taken from Canadian citizens that have done nothing wrong to keep this monster fed, medicated, treated, and housed for decades?

I have all the sympathy in the world for the mentally ill, but there is no cure for something like this. Once a person goes to the point of intentional and brutal murder and dismemberment, there is no rehabilitation.

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Li then apologized and pleaded with police to kill him.

I'm no doctor, but if he was so "mentally ill" at the time this occured, then why was he apologizing to police officers? Obvioulsy, he was able to comprehend that what he did was extremely wrong and likely against the law. People generally do not arbitrarily apologize to police officers unless they have something to apologize for.

The family of this poor victim, Tim McLean, will have to relive the horror every year... for the rest of their lives! Who's going to apologize to them, as if an apology would even amout to squat!

The so called experts say Vince Li is ill. I say he's just evil!

Canadians need to stand in front of that court house until this freak judge resigns

take your country back Canada

Matter of fact, this judge needs to do the time if he / she feels that this person is not capible to do the crime

are ya sick of the madness people .... Hows the New World Order work'n for ya so far

Hopefully he won't get a passport to America!

I wouldn't lay a bet on it though.

You never know what a Marxist/Socialist/Kenyan FAKE President might to to further ruin my country and not his!!!!!

BUT at least we have something that's getting to be multicultural .... BE-HEADINGS!!!

According to Obama that is a good thing... ah, The Dear Leader.

If Dalmer was alive they could have had the same cell so Dalmer could eat him!

It was cutting him up that made him "insane", so I guess the lesson for those who would do such things is to do something absolutely unthinkable so you will get a sentence such as this one. It's the judge and the system that's totally INSANE!