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A Canadian man has admitted killing a student and mailing his body parts to political parties. Luka Magnotta, 32, planned to murder someone for six months before he killed Jun Lin, 33, in Montreal in 2012.During that time he made a movie of his plans and his lawyer claims he is schizophrenic. Explicit details of the killing were publicised during the international search to capture Magnotta, but cannot be repeated. Magnotta is charged with the first-degree murder of Lin and with committing indignities to Lin’s body and broadcasting obscene material. He is accused of dismembering Lin and mailing body parts to Canadian political parties
and to two elementary schools. Magnotta admitted to the acts underlying the five offences he is charged with, including killing Lin, but he pleaded not guilty to each charge.
‘A person is not responsible if he or she suffers from a mental disorder at the time of the act,’ defence lawyer Luc Leclair told the jury.
Prosecutor Louis Bouthillier said an alleged email from Magnotta to a journalist in 2011, some six months before the killing, indicates Lin’s murder was planned and deliberate.
‘It is our position that this email makes it clear that Mr Magnotta planned to kill a human being and make a movie,’ he said.
Surveillance images from Magnotta’s apartment building in Montreal in 2012 showed him walking with Lin, an engineering student and convenience store clerk, Bouthillier said.
‘These images from the surveillance cameras are the last images of Jun Lin alive,’ the prosecutor added. ‘Mr Jun Lin’s head will be found in Angrignon Park about a month after his death.’
A police witness described gruesome items retrieved from garbage bags and a fly-covered suitcase dumped near Magnotta’s apartment building.
The prosecutor said the jury will also see a video allegedly made by Magnotta that shows the killing.
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