![]() ![]() Li, wearing handcuffs and leg shackles, shuffled into the room led by several sheriff’s officers, and was placed in the prisoner’s box. but started 25 minutes late because of delays in ushering people through a metal detector outside the courtroom. Li’s lawyer is planning to call his own medical expert either later today or tomorrow. Stanley Yaren, began his testimony just after 11:30 am. MIKE APORIUS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSĪ button in Tim McLean's memory, worn by family friend Brenda Lewis at the Law Courts on Tuesday. The sole issue for Scurfield to decide is whether Li should be held criminally responsible. Prosecutor Joyce Dalman told Queen’s Bench Justice John Scurfield that lawyers have agreed on a statement of facts in the case, and that no witnesses to the slaying would be called. He was briefly hospitalized in Ontario but received no further follow-up.Ī Manitoba Crown attorney began Li’s second-degree murder trial this morning by reading the horrific details of McLean’s death. Li has had episodes dating back to around 2005, when he was picked up by police walking down an Ontario highway, believing he was "following the sun" after shedding most of his posessions, said Yaren. Li believed the 22-year-old McLean was going to "execute" him if he didn’t act fast, said Yaren, director of forensic psychiatry for both the province and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.Īfter killing him, Li thought he had to further decapitate and defile McLean’s body for fear he’d come back to life to "finish him off." He said the Li’s actions could not have been predicted, given that he had no prior criminal record or history of any violence. Yaren, who has worked closely with Li at the Health Sciences Centre, said Li was clearly suffering from a major psychotic episode as a result of schizophrenia at the time of the attack. "But (Li) is as much of a victim of this horrible illness … as Mr. "I completely understand the need for a sense of justice, of retribution," Yaren told Queen’s Bench Justice John Scurfield. Yaren said Li has made significant strides since being hospitalized after his arrest and could one day function again in the community - something Yaren admits doesn’t sit well with most people, including the victim’s family. Stanley Yaren described Li as a "decent person" who was clearly out of his mind when he believed he was acting on God’s orders to eliminate "the force of evil" and attacked Tim McLean. Vincent Li has a strong chance to recover from a major mental illness that caused him to kill, behead and cannibalize a sleeping passenger on board a Greyhound bus last summer, a doctor told a Winnipeg court this afternoon.ĭr. WARNING: Details of this case may offend some readers. This article was published (5236 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism. ![]()
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