![]() ![]() The reason Li had so dramatically short-circuited in 2008, and had begun to hear voices urging him to kill? If he gets it, it will be as if McLean’s murder never happened, with nothing on the books even mentioning Li. ![]() The Criminal Code Review Board in Manitoba said Monday it needs a “few days” to decide if Li gets the absolute discharge he is seeking. Li, who suffers from a severe form of schizophrenia, was found not criminally responsible for his macabre actions, and sent off to a maximum-security mental health facility presumably for life, but has since gained incremental freedom and started living alone last year, although he's still being monitored. The public is supposed to believe that forensic psychiatrists can walk on water, and are infallible in their diagnoses, even though the human brain is stuffed with the complexities of a 100-billion neurons, each with upwards of 100,000 synaptic connections that must line up precisely in order to avoid the prospect of short-circuiting.Įditorial: With no conditions, Vince Li is a threat The 2008 murder of 22-year-old Tim McLean, attacked as he slept in his seat on a bus about an hour outside of his home town of Winnipeg, was one of the most ultra-violent killings imaginable.īut today Li is closer to being a free man, with no conditions. Time does not erase or sanitize those facts. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĬall him Vince Li, or call him by his new alias Will Baker, but also call him what he is - a cannibal killer who beheaded his victim in the back of a Greyhound bus, cut out his heart and ate a piece of it.The RCMP said Li has no known criminal record. Hodgson couldn't offer many details about Li. McLean chose a joker – a theme he would use for his Myspace web page under the name Jokawild, where he described his interests as "playin vids, chillin', havin a good time." Caron opted for a ghost riding a motorcycle. McLean and Caron got their first tattoos together. "He never cared for sitting around, unless it was for a weekend with the guys playing Risk. His friend liked to travel, which was the reason he spent three summers working the carnival circuit, Caron added. He led a mostly quiet life, preferring to spend time playing cards and the board game Risk, Caron said. McLean had been working at carnival booths and was coming home from Edmonton to be with his family. He had a great personality," McLean's longtime friend and Caron's wife, Jodi Lang, said on the lawn of their Winnipeg home. ![]() But passengers said the young man died in an appalling attack in which his seat-mate silently stood up and repeatedly stabbed him before severing his head and carving up his body.įriends say they simply cannot understand why anyone would attack the thin young man, just five-feet, five inches tall, and by all accounts easy-going. Police did not release details about his death. Li was charged after McLean died in a gruesome attack on a Greyhound bus that was travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg. ``I don't think it will be very long that they'll allow him to do that (be without a lawyer)." speak to counsel and he's giving him that opportunity," Crown prosecutor Larry Hodgson said outside court. "It's early and I think the judge just wants to respect his rights to. The Crown asked for a psychiatric assessment, but the judge said he wanted to give Li a chance to talk to a lawyer about that. Passengers had described McLean's attacker as a big man who weighed at least 200 pounds. The accused, wearing a grey T-shirt and prisoner's vest, appeared to be about five-foot-eight or nine with a stocky build. He would not even reply when the judge asked him if he was going to get a lawyer and only nodded slightly when asked whether he was exercising his right not to speak. He did not make eye contact with anyone the entire time he was before the judge. Li – his face bruised, one hand bandaged and his legs shackled – quietly shuffled into the room with his head bowed. ![]() There were no answers from a courtroom in Portage la Prairie, Man., where Vince Weiguang Li, 40, of Edmonton, made his first court appearance on a charge of second-degree murder. "As far as I've known him, he'd never got into a single fight in his whole life." "There was nothing in the world that could set him off or (make) him do anything wrong to anybody," said William Caron, who knew Tim McLean, 22, since Grade 7. WINNIPEG–A man accused of beheading a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus uttered not a word in court today and the victim's friends were still at a loss as to how anyone could have attacked someone they say never hurt a soul. ![]()
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