Posted on 08/05/2008 2:14:48 PM PDT by pissant
OTTAWA (AFP) — A Chinese immigrant who stabbed, gutted and beheaded a fellow passenger on a bus traveling across Canada last week also cannibalized the victim and pocketed his nose, lips and ear, a court heard Tuesday.
Vince Weiguang Li, 40, of Edmonton faces a second-degree murder charge in the horrific case.
The victim has been identified by friends as Tim McLean, a young man of 22 years who was returning home to Winnipeg from a job as a carnival worker in Edmonton in Western Canada.
In his second court appearance, Li was overheard saying "please kill me," his interim defense lawyer Randy Janis told AFP.
Prosecutors said he appeared to be eating pieces of his victim when police surrounded the bus on a desolate highway about 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of Winnipeg last week immediately following the July 30 attack.
Li had decapitated the victim and was taunting police and bystanders with the head, the Crown said.
According to reports, McLean had been asleep, his cheek pressed against the window of the bus when his assailant struck suddenly, stabbing him repeatedly in the chest with a "big Rambo knife."
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What wine would you suggest to go with beheading victim?
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Murd er ee au champs (sp) or a nice merlot
“Any responses from the people who were sure he’d be a Muslim?”
Given that Islam has rekindled their jihad against the West, such a presumption would be a probability, though not a certainty.
Thanks to the socialism impaired, the larger society has been forced to disavow proven tools such as profiling and relying on the results of analysis of racial nad ethnic group behaviors.
By the way, China is infested with Muslims. Therefore, being Chinese does not rule out being Muslim.
Actualy Taste rike pork.
With luck the deceased had some sickness that he passed along to the cannibal.
BTW, anyone know if Weiguang is a mussie name? There are muzzies in parts of China.
Stab, gut and eat a leftist politician?
I would suggest a white wine - Long pork - the other white meat!
It doesn't look particularly Uyghur, based on this list. For instance, there are five Uyghurs in Guantanamo: Dawut Abdurehim, Abu Bakker Qassim, A'Del Abdu Al-Hakim, Akhdar Qasem Basit and Nag Mohammed
From news reports based on interviews with other passengers, there appears to have been at least some planning. Mr. Li originally did not sit by the victim, but moved after a stop. The attack was apparently unprovoked. That is, witnesses say that there was no indication of any argument or disagreement between the victim and Mr. Li. He just started stabbing him, out of the blue.
That, and the big Rambo knife he had with him, speaks to some degree of premeditation.
Then its first degree, with special circumstances (decapitation, cannibalism), although I don't know how they handle this in Canada. I'm not hard to convince!
WTF were the people on the bus DOING the whole time he was filleting this guy? It takes a while to stab, gut, behead, and EAT a man!
Sorry, you're in Canada, wonder if they have the insanity defense there, hopefully this guy will live a short and torturous life in prison, if he doesn't commit suicide, the other inmates should take care of him less they wake up dismembered and served for dinner.
There are some large Muslem enclaves in China, so it is possible. I will say though that it does not appear (at this time) to be a case of Sudden Jihad Syndrome. (SJS). But again we are being 'spared' any details.
It’s not just the Gitmo detainees, though. From what I can find, most Uyghurs seem to have names that look a lot the names Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan/Etceterastan. Which makes sense since they’re ethnically, linguistically and culturally a lot more similar to those neighbors immediately to the west than they are to the Han Chinese.
SECOND DEGREE F@#%*N’ MURDER ?????
That is mind-boggling. Why not just charge him with disorderly conduct?
Dissing a member of the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Why not 1st degree?
Probably hard to pin the 1st degree - with its implication of cold calculation and pre-meditation - on someone so obviously insane.
The crimes being so barbaric, to the most reasonable people, the man is as crazy as you can get.
Uderstand the sentiments calling for his immediate execution. But they will likely keep this guy on ice for a while, reckoning he is a gold mine for the clinical/abnormal psych specialists. Compare to Dahlmer, where the motivation was sexual. What is going on in this person’s head where he would commit this sort of killing in public - in full view of people on a bus? What psychology is being satisfied by this act?
Scary isn’t it?
C'mon, Canada. He said the magic word and everything! How about 'pretty please with sugar on top'?
Excerpt from the article (short answer - they were RUNNING AWAY FAST!!):
According to reports, McLean had been asleep, his cheek pressed against the window of the bus when his assailant struck suddenly, stabbing him repeatedly in the chest with a "big Rambo knife."
The other 34 passengers and the driver were jolted by "blood-curdling screams" and fled, bracing the door on their way out to trap the assailant inside the bus, witness Garnet Caton told public broadcaster CBC.
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