Canadian found guilty of murder in dismemberment of Chinese student

23/12/2014 - 17:26

TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian man on Tuesday was found guilty of first-degree murder in the dismemberment of a Chinese student in 2012.

Luka Magnotta, 32, had admitted to killing engineering student Jun Lin, 33, but pleaded not guilty on grounds of mental illness.

(Reporting by Nelson Wyatt; Writing by Jeffrey Hodgson; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)