WORLD The jury did not follow the defense pleaded insanity …
The Canadian Luka Magnotta, dubbed the “skinning Montreal,” declared Tuesday guilty of premeditated murder in particularly squalid conditions of a Chinese student in Montreal in 2012. The jury did not follow the defense who had pleaded insanity.
Prison in perpetuity
The judge sentenced the young man to life in prison, or in Canada a mandatory sentence of 25 years in prison. Magnotta, 32, had admitted killing and dismembered her sexual partner for a night, Lin Jun, who was 33, but pleaded not guilty to five charges on account of mental disorder.
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At the announcement of the verdict, Magnotta did not show emotions and settled for look down.
The jury of eight women and four men delivered its unanimous verdict after eight days of deliberations on the trial, which opened in late September. Last Wednesday, in response to a question from the jury, the judge said that serious personality disorders that are considered Magnotta suffers a mental illness within the meaning of Canadian law.
But for the lawyer Crown, Louis Bouthillier, these disorders did not prevent Magnotta to distinguish right from wrong when he killed Lin Jun 25 May 2012. It had provided overwhelming evidence to show that Magnotta had “planned the killing at least six months in advance and that he acted with premeditation before, during and after the crime. “
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