Oh, GAH - more on the Greyhound Bus murder.
And THIS is gruesome. I thought the first post I made about it was bad, but THIS... Just...wow. Some of it is a rehash, some old news, but because the initial reports were so vague about exactly WHAT this guy did to his victim...well, there are newer details that defy...everything. *shudder* I bolded the most trainwreck-ish points.
Beheading accused 'ate man, kept body parts'
From correspondents in Ottawa
August 06, 2008 07:45am
A MAN who allegedly stabbed, gutted and beheaded a passenger on a bus in Canada also ate the victim and pocketed his nose, lips and ear, court has been told.
Chinese immigrant Vince Weiguang Li, 40, of Edmonton faces a second-degree murder charge.
The victim was identified by friends as Tim McLean, 22, who was returning home to Winnipeg from a job as a carnival worker in Edmonton in Western Canada.
In his second court appearance, Mr Li was reportedly overheard saying "please kill me".
Prosecutors said police saw him eating pieces of his victim when they surrounded the bus on a desolate highway about 90km west of Winnipeg following the July 30 attack.
Mr Li had decapitated the victim, sliced off an ear and bits of flesh and was taunting police and bystanders with the head, refusing to leave the bus and screaming "I have to stay on the bus forever", prosecutors alleged.
According to reports, Mr McLean had been asleep, his cheek pressed against the window of the bus when his assailant struck suddenly near dusk, 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 earlier said on public broadcaster CBC.
Mr McLean was stabbed 20 to 40 times, said prosecutor Joyce Dalmyn.
After a three-hour standoff, Mr Li tossed a knife and scissors out of a broken window of the bus, jumped out and was subdued by police, the court was told.
In his pants pocket, police found several body parts hacked from the victim's face, said Ms Dalmyn.
According to reports, Mr Li worked mostly solitary jobs, including delivering newspapers and as a church custodian, since his arrival in Canada in 2004.
People who knew Mr Li said he had shown signs of mental health troubles in the years leading up to the attack but refused help.
His estranged wife told police he had once been in hospital for four days for strange behaviour, the court was told.
Mr Li did not speak in court. He nodded yes when asked by the judge if he understood the seriousness of the charge and shook his head no when asked if he wanted a lawyer.
"He doesn't seem to want to engage in any discourse," his interim defence lawyer Randy Janis said after meeting with Mr Li to try to convince him to accept legal counsel.
"His few responses are non-verbal, there's very little eye contact. Occasionally, he'll nod or shake his head to answer," he said, describing Mr Li as withdrawn.
The judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation before the next court appearance on September 8.
Also, from the Associated Press: TORONTO - A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim’s body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked Saturday on the Internet.
In the tape of police radio transmissions, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer refers to the attacker as "Badger" and says he is armed with a knife and a pair of scissors and "is defiling the body at the front of the bus as we speak."
I'm guessing you've all by now seen the ads Greyhound Canada has had to pull...?
Beheading accused 'ate man, kept body parts'
From correspondents in Ottawa
August 06, 2008 07:45am
- Murder accused 'cut off victim's face and ate bits'
- Accused a solitary and troubled Chinese immigrant
- Bus passenger stabbed and decapitated
A MAN who allegedly stabbed, gutted and beheaded a passenger on a bus in Canada also ate the victim and pocketed his nose, lips and ear, court has been told.
Chinese immigrant Vince Weiguang Li, 40, of Edmonton faces a second-degree murder charge.
The victim was identified by friends as Tim McLean, 22, who was returning home to Winnipeg from a job as a carnival worker in Edmonton in Western Canada.
In his second court appearance, Mr Li was reportedly overheard saying "please kill me".
Prosecutors said police saw him eating pieces of his victim when they surrounded the bus on a desolate highway about 90km west of Winnipeg following the July 30 attack.
Mr Li had decapitated the victim, sliced off an ear and bits of flesh and was taunting police and bystanders with the head, refusing to leave the bus and screaming "I have to stay on the bus forever", prosecutors alleged.
According to reports, Mr McLean had been asleep, his cheek pressed against the window of the bus when his assailant struck suddenly near dusk, 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 earlier said on public broadcaster CBC.
Mr McLean was stabbed 20 to 40 times, said prosecutor Joyce Dalmyn.
After a three-hour standoff, Mr Li tossed a knife and scissors out of a broken window of the bus, jumped out and was subdued by police, the court was told.
In his pants pocket, police found several body parts hacked from the victim's face, said Ms Dalmyn.
According to reports, Mr Li worked mostly solitary jobs, including delivering newspapers and as a church custodian, since his arrival in Canada in 2004.
People who knew Mr Li said he had shown signs of mental health troubles in the years leading up to the attack but refused help.
His estranged wife told police he had once been in hospital for four days for strange behaviour, the court was told.
Mr Li did not speak in court. He nodded yes when asked by the judge if he understood the seriousness of the charge and shook his head no when asked if he wanted a lawyer.
"He doesn't seem to want to engage in any discourse," his interim defence lawyer Randy Janis said after meeting with Mr Li to try to convince him to accept legal counsel.
"His few responses are non-verbal, there's very little eye contact. Occasionally, he'll nod or shake his head to answer," he said, describing Mr Li as withdrawn.
The judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation before the next court appearance on September 8.
Also, from the Associated Press: TORONTO - A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim’s body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked Saturday on the Internet.
In the tape of police radio transmissions, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer refers to the attacker as "Badger" and says he is armed with a knife and a pair of scissors and "is defiling the body at the front of the bus as we speak."
I'm guessing you've all by now seen the ads Greyhound Canada has had to pull...?