Human head found in Montreal park Unclear if find is linked to Magnotta body-parts case

The park where a human head was found Sunday in Montreal. (QMI Agency)

 














MONTREAL  - A human head was found in a west-end park on Sunday, QMI Agency has learned, but it was not immediately clear if there's a link to the Luka Magnotta body-parts case.

The head was found on the shore of a lake in Angrignon park, a few kilometres south of Magnotta's apartment where his lover, Jun Lin, was killed in late May.
A large number of police officers and detectives were on the scene Sunday and a forensic identification truck was seen in the park.
The entire area was closed to the public.
Montreal police spokeswoman Anie Lemieux confirmed a discovery was made in the park Sunday morning but she wouldn't say if it was a human head.
"The major crimes squad investigators were in the park, they got information that led them there," Lemieux told QMI Agency.
"They found something that they have given to the coroner's office. It's too early to say if it's linked to the homicide case, the Magnotta case that we all know." She added that the item found near the lake would be examined in the coming days. Test results are expected to be completed within a week.
Police have told the Lin family about the discovery, a source told QMI.
The Chinese student was cut to pieces, his body parts mailed to the offices of Canadian political parties in Ottawa and public schools in Vancouver.
The head is the only part that has not been officially accounted for in the gory case that made headlines around the world.
Magnotta, born Eric Clinton Newman, is a former small-time porn actor who grew up in east-end Toronto and Lindsay, Ont., northeast of the city.
The 29-year-old was briefly considered the world's most wanted man after a janitor found Lin's torso outside Magnotta's west-end Montreal apartment.
The case took a grisly turn when a video was posted to a gore website that shows a man tied to a bed, stabbed to death with an ice pick and dismembered.
Police say the victim in the video is Jun Lin.
Magnotta fled to Europe following the murder and a manhunt extended to Paris and then to Berlin, where the suspect was arrested six days later.
He was extradited to Canada under unprecedented security and has pleaded not-guilty to first-degree murder and other charges.
Magnotta is being kept in solitary confinement pending a preliminary hearing scheduled for March.

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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, I just don’t think it will be a good outcome, so the faster he is caught the better.”
The woman, who has known Magnotta since he was a child, spoke on a condition of anonymity. She described a highly dysfunctional family where Magnotta was raised by his grandparents with little if any structure.
“This family from the head down is very dysfunctional,” she said, as she sipped a coffee in a Peterborough Tim Hortons.
“He’s a nut job. I did not trust him. Eric is the type of individual, I think he’s mentally ill. He has delusions of grandeur. He concocts stories that he tends to believe and they in turn become fact in his mind.”
“The essence of this whole story is parenting or the lack of.”
To the national, now international, audience that is following the case, Magnotta is a murder suspect, a porn-star, a kitten slaughterer and even a rumoured love interest of child killer Karla Holmoka.
But to his family in the Peterborough area, the man at the centre of a bizarre case in which parts from a dismembered body were mailed to national political party offices is just Eric Newman. The woman said Magnotta was an “odd,” effeminate teen growing up in Scarborough and then Lindsay where he attended I. E. Weldon Secondary School for Grade 10 and 11.
“He’s a nut job. I did not trust him,” the woman said. “Eric is the type of individual, I think he’s mentally ill. He has delusions of grandeur. He concocts stories that he tends to believe and they in turn become fact in his mind.”
Magnotta was born in Scarborough to parents Don Newman and Anna Yourkin and has a younger brother and sister and two younger half-siblings.
His mother and sister live in Peterborough. Both declined to comment Thursday.

“Please get off the property, you’re trespassing,” Anna Yourkin told The Examiner on Thursday morning through the door of her Westcott St. home.

That home was the site of a $60,000 fire in June 2010. Police said the fire was intentional and charged a 14-year-old boy with arson endangering life.
Magnotta’s 21-year-old cousin, Louis Yourkin, is currently calling the Central East Correctional Centre home. He is before the Peterborough court on charges of gun and drug trafficking.
He was charged after police seized handguns following a vehicle stop. Court has heard he purchased the handguns to settle a drug debt.
Both Magnotta and Louis Yourkin were raised by their biological grandmother — Phyllis Yourkin — who lives in Peterborough’s north-end, the family member said.
“(Phyllis) tries to be the typical matriarch of the family. She is very domineering, controlling and if you have a submissive personality she will beat you up and do what she wants,” she said.
Lindsay Post sister paper The Peterborough Examiner went to I. E. Weldon Secondary School and found Magnotta’s photo in the 1999 and 2000 yearbooks, where he is identified as Eric Newman. In his Grade 10 picture he sports a lumberjack shirt and Mohawk-style haircut. The following year he has the bleached blond dye characteristic of his current online persona.
The school’s vice-principal would not discuss Magnotta’s history at the school.
“We can’t comment,” Richard Christie said.
Since news broke of Magnotta’s suspected role in the gruesome murder and disembodiment of an unknown man in Montreal that police said was videotaped and posted online, the family has been shocked by the graphic details, the woman said.
“It made me nauseous,” she said.
But the woman said she doesn’t believe for a second that Magnotta had any romantic connection to school girl killer Karla Holmoka, a story that circulated five years ago. Magnotta has a habit of making up rumours about himself, she said.
“He will create a conflict, then he will take himself out and he will deny the content of the story, which he in fact started,” she explained.
While some media reports suggested Magnotta might have fled the country, the woman said
Peterborough and Lindsay residents should keep their eyes out for Magnotta as he feels comfortable in both communities.
“People need to be aware that he does have a connection to Peterborough, he does have a connection to Lindsay,” she said. “Eric thinks he’s smarter than he is.”
-The Peterborough Examiner

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