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| Canada porn actor Luka Magnotta guilty of Jun Lin murder | Canada porn actor Luka Magnotta guilty of Jun Lin murder |
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| A Canadian porn actor has been found guilty of first-degree murder over the dismemberment of his lover in 2012. | A Canadian porn actor has been found guilty of first-degree murder over the dismemberment of his lover in 2012. |
| Jurors in Montreal rejected Luka Magnotta's defence that mental illness meant he was not responsible. He now faces a mandatory life sentence | |
| Magnotta, now 32, had earlier admitted killing 33-year-old student Jun Lin before his body parts were posted to political parties and schools. | Magnotta, now 32, had earlier admitted killing 33-year-old student Jun Lin before his body parts were posted to political parties and schools. |
| Magnotta was later arrested in a cybercafe in Berlin, Germany. | |
| Before his arrest, French police said he had flown to Paris from Montreal. | |
| Investigators have said a video posted online, in which a man apparently uses an ice pick to kill another man, is believed to show Jun Lin's murder. | Investigators have said a video posted online, in which a man apparently uses an ice pick to kill another man, is believed to show Jun Lin's murder. |
| Headless torso | |
| Magnotta was convicted after eight days of deliberations by the jury. | |
| The defence had said that Magnotta was a schizophrenic and therefore could not be held criminally responsible. | |
| But the prosecution had successfully argued that the murder in May 2012 was both planned and deliberate. | |
| Mr Lin's headless torso was found behind the block of flats where the bisexual porn actor lived. | |
| Severed limbs, also confirmed to be the Chinese student's, were sent to political parties in Ottawa - including Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative Party - and to two schools in Vancouver. | |
| The case sent shockwaves across Canada and gained international notoriety. |