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The driver who witnessed a schizophrenic behead a fellow Greyhound bus passenger last summer has been gripped with panic attacks, while those who mourn the victim say they can’t sleep and have developed a deep sense that justice hasn’t been done, a review board heard Monday.

The insanity plea was expected to be the obvious play, and Justice John Scurfield ate it up. Apparently for a crime this outrageous only two witnesses are needed to be heard from. Conveniently, both were forensic psychiatrists who agree that Li is a schizophrenic who – cliché alert! – was told by The Voice of God to kill McLean. A Law & Order episode with this tired and overused plotline would be just cause for switching to hockey highlights.

Vince Li has been found not criminally responsible in the unprovoked killing and beheading of fellow passenger Timothy McLean on a Greyhound bus last summer. Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench Judge John Scurfield said Thursday that Li, 40, could not be found guilty of murder and is not criminally responsible for the crime because he was mentally ill at the time of the killing. "These grotesque acts are appalling... but are suggestive of a mental disorder," the judge said. "He did not appreciate the act he committed was wrong." Li had pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder....