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WINNIPEG, Manitoba — A Canadian judge ruled Thursday that a man accused of beheading and cannibalizing a fellow Greyhound bus passenger is not criminally responsible because of 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 in July while horrified passengers fled.
Justice John Scurfield said the attack was “barbaric” but “strongly suggestive of a mental disorder.”
