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Killing of tim mclean3/10/2024 John Woods / The Canadian PressĬarol deDelley (left) mother of Tim McLean, kisses her daughter Katie outside the Law Courts in Winnipeg Thursday.ĭalmyn told court her department had a duty to raise the issue of criminal responsibility even though it is controversial with the public. There’s no contradictory evidence here," Li’s lawyer, Alan Libman, told Scurfield during a brief closing argument on Wednesday morning. "This is as close to beyond a reasonable doubt as you can get. Scurfield’s verdict wasn’t surprising, considering the only evidence presented by both the Crown and defence during the trial called for the NCR finding. She also took a shot at Canadian immigration policies which she said allowed Li, who was born in China, into the country with a mental illness in the first place. displays a tattoo of his son outside court Thursday, after the judge handed down his verdict. Just one individual did that."ĭeDelley said the law needs to be changed so someone can be found not psychologically accountable but still criminally responsible for a crime. There was nobody else on that bus holding a knife slicing up my child. "Whether he was in his right frame of mind or not, he still did the act. "He still did it," she told reporters outside court. McLean’s mother, Carol deDelley, said Li may have been mentally ill when he attacked her son, but the fact remains that a crime was committed. They are vowing to fight to keep Li locked up and want federal laws to change so that people like him never have the chance at release. The victim’s family was upset, but not surprised, by the outcome. Dalmyn believes the review board will thoroughly monitor Li and will not let him return to the community unless they are certain he doesn’t pose a risk to society. “I feel the judge did his job properly and reached the correct conclusion,” she said. He will be institutionalized without a criminal record and will be reassessed every year by a mental health review board to determine if he is fit for release into the community.Ĭrown attorney Joyce Dalmyn told reporters outside court justice had been served. Li is currently housed in the psychiatric ward at the Health Sciences Centre. He will appear before a Criminal Code review board in the next 90 days, where it is expected he will be sent to the Selkirk Mental Health Centre for long-term treatment. Li, 40, showed no emotion at the verdict and was quietly led away by sheriff’s officers. He believed he was acting in self defence.” “He did not appreciate the actions he committed were morally wrong. Tom Andrich / Winnipeg Free PressĪn artist's drawing of Vince Li inside the courtroom in Winnipeg. However, the acts themselves and the context in which they were committed are strongly suggested of a mental disorder,” Queen’s Bench Justice John Scurfield said in his decision. Li admitted killing, beheading and cannibalizing McLean but believed he was acting under commands from God to attack a “demon” or else he would be executed, court heard during the two-day trial. Vincent Li is headed to a hospital – not a prison cell – after being found not criminally responsible today for the murder of Tim McLean on board a Greyhound bus last summer. This article was published (5457 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
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