MONTREAL – Luka Rocco Magnotta will appear at the Montreal courthouse via videoconference at 2 p.m. Thursday in connection with several charges, including the first-degree murder of student Lin Jun.
His lawyer, Pierre Panaccio, is expected to request his client undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine whether he can be deemed criminally responsible for the crimes with which he is charged.
For the request to be accepted by Quebec Court judge Renée-Lori Weitzman, Panaccio will have to show reasonable cause that Magnotta requires an...
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Luka Rocco Magnotta’s online identities make his autobiographical information hard to decipher
The world knows Luka Rocco Magnotta all too well.
His exploits, whether real or imagined, whether alleged by police or conjured up in his own mind, have been detailed by media outlets around the globe.
It appears the 29-year-old man accused of killing, dismembering and partially cannibalizing Montreal university student Jun Lin wanted it that way.
Mr. Magnotta appeared to live much of his life online, using the Internet to cultivate a dark...
Luka Magnotta a ‘ticking time bomb’: Peterborough relative
A photo of Luka Magnotta's Grade 10 high school yearbook photo from I.E. Weldon Secondary School in Lindsay. PETERBOROUGH - Luka Magnotta is a “ticking time bomb” who needs to be brought into custody, says a close family member of the primary suspect in a gruesome Montreal murder.“I hope that he is caught because he is a ticking time bomb,” the woman said during an exclusive interview with QMI Agency. “Because he’s unstable, if he gets cornered,...
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