A Canadian porn actor has been sentenced to 25 years in
prison for murder for killing and dismembering his lover in
2012.
Jurors in Montreal rejected Luka Magnotta's defence that
mental illness meant he was not responsible.
Magnotta, now 32, had earlier admitted killing 33-year-old
student Jun Lin before his body parts were posted to
political parties and schools.
Magnotta was later arrested in a cybercafe in Berlin,
Germany.
Before his arrest, French police said he had flown to Paris
from Montreal.
Investigators have said a video posted online, in which a
man apparently uses an ice pick to kill another man, is
believed to show Jun Lin's murder.
Headless torso
Magnotta was sentenced after eight days of deliberations by
the jury.
He was also convicted on four related charges of criminally
harassing Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and
other members of parliament, mailing obscene and indecent
material, committing an indignity to a body, and publishing
obscene materials.
He was impassive in court as the verdict was read and when
the sentence was delivered.
The defence had said that Magnotta was a schizophrenic
and therefore could not be held criminally responsible.
But the prosecution had successfully argued that the
murder in May 2012 was both planned and deliberate.
Mr Lin's headless torso was found behind the block of flats
where the bisexual porn actor lived.
Severed limbs, also confirmed to be the Chinese student's,
were sent to political parties in Ottawa - including Mr
Harper's Conservative Party - and to two schools in
Vancouver.
The case sent shockwaves across Canada and gained
international notoriety.
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