The case has been adjourned until November 6 when a trial date will be set. Li would be assessed every year by Manitoba’s mental health review board and could be released back into the community if he’s found to no longer be a risk to public safety. If Li is ultimately found not criminally responsible, he would be sent to a hospital instead of a prison. The rest of the facts aren’t in dispute and witnesses won’t necessarily have to be called, he said. Libman said he expects the trial to boil down to a battle of Crown and defence medical experts regarding Li’s mental state at the time of the slaying. His wife has told police of a previous four-day stay at a hospital, but no further information has been released publicly by police or lawyers. He lived in Winnipeg and Edmonton, and those who knew him believed he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia but refused to get treatment. Li came to Canada from China in 2001 and became a Canadian citizen in 2006, meaning he can’t be deported. However, details will be kept from the public until his case is resolved as a publication ban was ordered Monday at the request of Crown and defence lawyers. Stanley Yaren has submitted a detailed report on Li’s mental state following two months of intensive evaluation. The 40 year old Li, immigrant from China, is said to be very cooperative in this matter and with officials at the Health Science Centre where he was being treated since August.ĭr. Li has agreed to waive his right to a preliminary hearing so the matter is expected to reach the Court of Queen’s Bench very quickly. The question before the court now is whether Li should be charged for the the death of Tim McLean given the fact that it could be argued that at the time of the Commission of the murder he might not have been in sound mind. What a tragedy for everyone, but the greatest loss of all belongs to the mother of Tim McLean who has lost a beautiful son in this freaky, senseless way.Īf ter several months of psychiatric treatment the word is that Vince Li has now understood the seriousness of his crime, how the court system works and the role of doctors and lawyers in the case and is fit to stand trial for murdering Tim McLean. I believe he might have gotten a glimpse through the fog of his illness when he asked police to shoot him, to kill him. ![]() He might not be able to face himself knowing what he has done. What do you do think of this case, what can you say that makes sense out of a crime like this by an insane man? If a person was sick when he committed such a heinous crime, it’s true that he might not be criminally responsible but for heaven’s sake this man should be kept behind some kind of bar for the rest of his life because he might not be able to recover from this. It was the first time McLean’s mom spoke to the press and she was clearly emotional. She wants to see him put away for a long time so that he does not get a chance to repeat what he has done to her son. She promised to fight the system for justice for her son and called on the community not to allow Vince Li to go free. Tim McLean’s mother was on the CBC radio expressing her concern that Vince Li might be found not to be responsible for killing her son, given some medication and be let out on the streets again. I can’t express how much I ache for McLean’s family but right is right. I am looking at the law and the purpose we as human beings developed them. I am not being insensitive to the family at all. If indeed he committed this crime thinking that he was receiving orders from little green men from space, it is something that he could not help. If Li cannot be rehabilitated, I can see why he should hever be let out again but if he can be rehabilitated, to keep him in prison for the rest of his life should be wrong. On the one hand I can understand a parent’s dismay but could the court be asked to carry out our vidictiveness. The funds will be used to help push the law through. ![]() ![]() To raise funds they are selling T-Shirts with their propaganda message. They are calling on community members of like mind to support them. ![]() The family believes justice will be served in this way. The trial date for Vince Li will be Maand McLean’s family are pushing hard for the government of Manitoba to enact Timmy’s law whereby people like Vince Li, if found criminally not responsible due to mental illness, should never be let back into the community again. Tim McLean, the 22 year old who was beheaded by Vince Li, is in the news again.
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