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Re: FACE OFF--not the Travolta Movie !
his name was tim mcclean. here's another photo of him: ![]() Thursday, 31 July 2008 23:18 Passenger beheaded on Canada bus A man on a Greyhound bus travelling across the Canadian Prairies has killed and decapitated a fellow passenger. An eyewitness said the victim was stabbed 50 or 60 times by the man sitting next to him, who then severed his head with a large knife. The driver pulled over and passengers fled from the bus, bracing the door to keep the attacker inside. A 40-year-old man was arrested after a stand-off lasting several hours and remains in police custody. The bus, with 37 passengers and a driver aboard, was travelling from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba. "All of a sudden, we all heard this scream, this bloodcurdling scream," passenger Garnet Caton told CBC television. "The attacker was standing up right over the top of the guy with a large hunting knife - a survival, Rambo knife - holding the guy and continually stabbing him... in the chest area," Mr Caton added. The attack continued as passengers fled the bus and waited for police on a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Mr Caton, the bus driver and a trucker who had stopped at the scene boarded the vehicle to see if the victim was still alive. "When we came back on the bus... he was cutting the guy's head off and pretty much gutting him up," Mr Caton said. The attacker ran at them, Mr Caton said, and they ran out of the bus, holding the door shut to prevent him getting out. "He calmly walks up to the front [of the bus] with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us," Mr Caton said. "There was no rage in him ... It was just like he was a robot or something," he added. A 40-year-old man was arrested by police at around 0100 (0700 GMT) on Wednesday night, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt Steve Colwell told reporters. He said that police apprehended the suspect after a confrontation lasting several hours when the man broke a bus window and tried to escape. The man has not yet been charged, Sgt Colwell said, adding that he could release no further information on the investigation. The RCMP have not identified the suspect or the victim. When the attacker tried to drive the bus away, the driver disabled the vehicle. "Some people were puking, some people were crying, other people were in shock ... everybody was running, screaming off the bus," Mr Caton said. Sgt Colwell said the "brave" behaviour of the passengers and driver probably prevented anyone else from being hurt. Other passengers said that the attacker and his victim were sitting at the back of the bus and the victim, described as around 20 years old, was listening to music through headphones. The attack appeared to be unprovoked and it is thought the killer did not know his victim. The passengers have been taken to a hotel in Brandon, Manitoba, and are being given crisis counselling. ------------------------------- Greyhound Bus Beheading Suspect Not Criminally Responsible: Canada Judge WINNIPEG, Manitoba — A Canadian judge ruled Thursday that a man accused of beheading and cannibalizing a fellow Greyhound bus passenger is not criminally responsible due to mental illness. The decision means Chinese immigrant Vince Li will be treated in a mental institution instead of going to prison. The family of victim Tim McLean said Li got away with murder. "A crime was still committed here, a murder still occurred," said Carol deDelley, McLean's mother. "There was nobody else on that bus holding a knife, slicing up my child." Li stabbed McLean dozens of times and dismembered his body last July while horrified passengers fled. Justice John Scurfield said the attack was "barbaric" but "strongly suggestive of a mental disorder." "He did not appreciate the actions he committed were morally wrong," Scurfield said. Both the prosecution and the defense argued Li can't be held responsible because he had schizophrenia and believed God wanted him to kill McLean because the young man was evil. Li will be institutionalized without a criminal record and reassessed every year by a mental health review board to determine if he is fit for release. DeDelley said a yearly hearing is ridiculous and Li should be locked up for the rest of his life. That Li killed the 22-year-old carnival worker was never in question at the trial. Li has admitted he killed McLean but pleaded not guilty. Witnesses said Li attacked McLean unprovoked as their bus traveled at night along a desolate stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway. Passengers fled and stood outside as Li stabbed McLean dozens of times and beheaded and mutilated his body. Finding himself locked inside the bus, Li finally escaped through a window and was arrested. Li then apologized and pleaded with police to kill him. Police said McLean's body parts were found throughout the bus in plastic bags, and the victim's ear, nose and tongue were found in Li's pocket. A psychiatrist called by the prosecution testified that Li cut up McLean's body because he believed that he would come back to life and take revenge. After the trial, government prosecutor Joyce Dalmyn said people who are mentally ill should be treated, not convicted, when they don't know what they did was wrong. Li's lawyer, Alan Libman, said, "Mr. Li advised me after court that he's going to work with his treatment team because it's his desire to get better." McLean's family says they will fight the law that allows people who are found not criminally responsible to be released into the community once they are deemed well, without serving a minimum jail sentence. ------------------ since the face bits were in li's pocket at the time of his arrest, and that's obviously not the floor of a greyhound bus, it's safe to say the photos were taken after tim was removed from the bus and reassembled. |