Canadian Admits Gruesome Murder

Former porn star's lawyers say he is mentally ill and not criminally responsible for dismembering Chinese student
[From article]
A model and former porn star who killed and dismembered a Chinese student in Canada sent the body parts to schools and politicians in packages with pink tissue paper and hand-written notes, a court has heard.
Luka Magnotta, 32, has admitted to carrying out the gruesome killing and captured his acts on video camera, but defence lawyers at his murder trial this week said he is not criminally responsible because he is mentally ill.
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Prosecutors said the videos showed the killer holding the door for his victim to enter on the day he died, and then later leaving the flat with a series of black bags and a large grey suitcase containing Mr Lin’s remains.
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On Monday, the court heard that Magnotta allegedly emailed a British journalist in 2011 detailing his intention to kill someone and film the act.
The incident first came to police attention when the caretaker at Magnotta’s flat used pliers to break the lock on the grey suitcase, which was left outside and starting to smell. He called the police when he found remains inside – by which point the killer had fled.
The international hunt for Magnotta grabbed headlines around the world in the summer of 2012. He was eventually arrested in an internet cafe in Berlin, where he was reading articles about himself online.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/luka-magnotta-murder-trial-jury-shown-gruesome-evidence-and-surveillance-video-from-night-of-killing-9772853.html

Luka Magnotta murder trial: Jury shown gruesome evidence and surveillance video from night of killing
ADAM WITHNALL 
Friday 03 October 2014