Luka Rocco Magnotta, who triggered an international manhunt in 2012 after murdering and dismembering Chinese student Jun Lin — then mailed body parts to political parties and schools after posting a video online of the dismemberment — was found guilty of first degree murder.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, the infamous "Canadian Cannibal," was found guilty on Tuesday of murdering and dismembering 33-year-old Chinese engineering student Jun Lin in 2012.
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Magnotta, 32, was found guilty in a Montreal court of first degree murder, criminal harassment, publishing obscene material, mailing obscene material, and defiling a body.
The defense team had argued Magnotta was mentally ill and therefore not in control of his own actions, which could have resulted in a lesser conviction, pointing to several experts who had diagnosed him as suffering from schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder. It was an argument the jury rejected after eight days of deliberation.
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