![]() ![]() McLean, a carnival worker, was returning home to Winnipeg on the bus from Edmonton. Rather than go to prison, Li will be kept in a secure psychiatric facility, most likely in Selkirk, Man. Psychiatric evidence at his trial suggested he is a schizophrenic who suffered a major psychotic episode last July 30 when he fatally stabbed McLean, 22, ate some of the body parts, and cut off McLean's head.įor five hours after the killing, Li wandered around on the bus, defiling the body while an RCMP tactical team waited to subdue him. ![]() Li had pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder. "He did not appreciate the act he committed was wrong." but are suggestive of a mental disorder," the judge said. Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench Judge John Scurfield said Thursday that Li, 40, could not be found guilty of murder and is not criminally responsible for the crime because he was mentally ill at the time of the killing. The court proceeding continues Thursday and closing arguments are expected Friday afternoon.Vince Li has been found not criminally responsible for the unprovoked killing and beheading of fellow passenger Timothy McLean on a Greyhound bus last summer. She said Yestrau would have to undergo intense counselling and would require further supports before it would be appropriate for the court to grant her custody of the child.ĭe Delley declined to comment on the custody battle before the conclusion of the case. Meanwhile, Verna Sullivan - a counsellor who provided an assessment of the boy and his interaction with various family members - told court she didn't believe Yestrau was fit to be awarded custody of her son. "I never wanted him to know, he is too little to know that." "Now he knows that a bad man killed him and that his (dad's) name is Tim McLean and that he goes to the cemetery with grandma," a visibly distraught Yestrau said. Until then, all he knew was that his dad was in heaven, she told court. ![]() But somebody in the family told him, she said. Yestrau also didn't want her son to know about what happened to his father. "I was shocked because Carol and I had an understanding that she wouldn't go to the media," said Yestrau. But Yestrau was surprised when she saw a CTV story last year where de Delley revealed McLean had a child, which was confirmed through DNA analysis. The family had kept news of McLean's son out of the public spotlight for the first six years of his life. But she wanted to keep her son away from the glare of the media that surrounded the killing and Vince Li's court case, which attracted international attention. Yestrau was overwhelmed when she heard news of McLean's death. ![]() "Then he told me he was leaving with a carnival," she said. An appointment was made but she never went. He wasn't ready to raise a child and urged Yestrau to have an abortion, she said. Tim McLean was distressed in 2008 when he first heard Yestrau was pregnant, court heard. "I have everything he needs," Yestrau told court Wednesday. Right now, Yestrau has limited visitation rights with her son, including four hours on Saturdays. But de Delley doesn't want to give him up. Yestrau says she's now getting her life back together and wants her son back. Li, the man who killed McLean, was found not criminally responsible for the murder. But the boy now lives with his grandmother Carol de Delley - Tim McLean's mother - who gained national prominence in recent years as she led a campaign calling for tougher sanctions against those deemed not criminally responsible for violent crimes. Yestrau, 30, has two children from her previous marriage and had originally given up her son, who was raised for several years by his step-grandmother. His mother, Colleen Yestrau, had known McLean since they were in Grade 1 and rekindled a brief romantic relationship with him in 2008 after she had a falling-out with her husband. 21, 2008 - nearly five months after his father was stabbed and mutilated on a bus near Portage la Prairie. The boy, who the Winnipeg Sun is not naming to protect his identity, was born Dec. Now the family is embroiled in a bitter custody dispute over McLean's seven-year-old son and it's pitting family members against each other in an ugly feud that's been playing out in a Winnipeg courtroom this week. It's bad enough the family of Tim McLean, the 22-year-old carnival worker who was beheaded on a Greyhound bus almost eight years ago, had to suffer the agony of a gruesome murder and years of judicial battles over the fate of his killer, Vince Li. ![]()
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