CAUGHT.....An
international manhunt caught him in Germany.
A MONTREAL court has set a
March 2013 date for the preliminary hearings in the case of Canadian porn actor
Luka Rocco Magnotta, accused of murdering a student, dismembering the body,
mailing out body parts and then posting a video of the killing online. The
10-day hearing before a judge and jury is set to start on 11th March 2013.
Magnotta, 29, has pleaded
not guilty to first-degree murder and to other charges connected to the brutal
death of Chinese student Jun Lin on 24th and 25th May. He was deported to
Canada from Germany last week.
"He wanted to come back
to Montreal," Magnotta's lawyer, Luc Leclair, told reporters outside the
courtroom. "He trusts the Canadian judicial system."
Leclair did not request a
psychiatric evaluation of Magnotta, who left a long and bizarre internet trail
as a gay escort and would-be reality TV star. Police say the video, which they
believe is genuine, showed a man stabbing his victim to death before
dismembering and defiling the corpse, and then eating part of the body.
Lin's hands and feet were
mailed to the offices of political parties in Ottawa and to schools in
Vancouver, while his torso was found in a pile of garbage behind Magnotta's
Montreal apartment. His head is still missing.
The case horrified Canada
and prompted an international manhunt. Montreal police have described the crime
scene as the worst they have ever seen.
Magnotta appeared in person
in a packed courtroom, wearing a short-sleeved plaid shirt tucked into pants.
"I'm just here out of curiosity. I want to see his face. It's silly, isn't
it?" said Montrealer Danielle Champlain. It was her first time at a court
hearing of any kind, she said.
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