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Toronto: A man accused of beheading and cannibalising another passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada shook his head and said "please kill me," when a judge asked him if he wanted a lawyer on Tuesday.
Manitoba Provincial Court Judge Michel Chartier ordered Vince Weiguang Li to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Prosecutor Joyce Dalmyn, who argued for the evaluation, revealed new details about the attack, which occurred last Wednesday night.
She said Li, 40, had a plastic bag containing his victim's ear, nose and part of a mouth in his pocket when officers arrested him. The only response officers received from him was, "'I have to stay on the bus forever,"' Dalmyn said.
Dalmyn also said the accused carried the victim's severed head back and forth on the bus "taunting" officers. Armed with a knife and a pair of scissors, he was also observed "cutting body parts from the victim and eating those body parts," she said.
In an interview with police after his arrest, Li declined to speak for the most part, said Dalmyn. On four occasions, however, he did indicate in a low voice that he is guilty, she said.
Li, who immigrated to Canada from China in 2004, is charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of 22-year-old carnival worker Tim McLean – an attack which witnesses aboard the bus said appeared to be unprovoked. He has yet to enter a plea.
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