Canada dismemberment trial shown video of fatal meeting between Lin and Magnotta
Trial of Canadian porn actor Luka Magnotta, who has admitted to killing Jun Lin, dismembering the Chinese student and videotaping his acts, continues in Montreal
Images of a Canadian man holding a door for the Chinese student he later dismembered were shown at trial on Thursday, with the prosecution telling the jury the footage was from surveillance cameras at the building where the gruesome murder took place.
Canadian Luka Magnotta, 32, has admitted to killing Jun Lin, 33, videotaping his acts and mailing parts of the body to elementary schools and to two political parties. He is pleading not guilty due to mental illness.
Lean and fine-boned in the footage watched by the jury, a now heavier Magnotta looked far different in court, where he sat behind a glass pane wearing a black T-shirt and dark-rimmed glasses.
Grainy footage taken from four security cameras on May 24, 2012, showed Magnotta and Lin entering the weathered Montreal apartment building, which overlooks a busy expressway.
“We saw [the] neck, shoulders and top of [the] torso, and that was enough for us.”
Over the next day, Magnotta is repeatedly seen entering and leaving the building, carrying and disposing of black garbage bags and a gray suitcase, his trips interrupted occasionally to fix his hair in the entrance mirror.
The footage shows Magnotta easily carrying the gray suitcase into the building on May 25, while labouring to drag it down the stairs when he departs several hours later.