A judge has ruled the man responsible for one of the most horrific crimes in Canadian history will be sent to a mental health facility instead of prison.
The mother of 22-year-old beheading victim Tim McLean said it came as no surprise Vince Li was found not criminally responsible for the gruesome crime, but said he should still be held accountable.
“Whether he was in his right frame of mind or not, he still did the act. There was nobody else on that bus holding a knife, slicing up my child,” Carol deDelley said to reporters outside a Winnipeg courthouse Wednesday.
Queen's Bench Justice John Scurfield ruled Li was clearly suffering a major mental illness when he decapitated and cannibalized his sleeping seatmate on a trip from Edmonton to Winnipeg on July 30, 2008.
DeDelley feels laws should be changed so criminals are found "not psychologically accountable, but still criminally responsible."
"Due to no fault of his own, a major illness took my son's life, but he was never sick," she said, adding that annual visits to ensure Li remains locked up will replace her son¹s birthday each year.
"We've already had our loss. It's to save everybody else. It's been put on us. We sure as hell didn't volunteer for that job, but it is ours now."
The mother of 22-year-old beheading victim Tim McLean said it came as no surprise Vince Li was found not criminally responsible for the gruesome crime, but said he should still be held accountable.
“Whether he was in his right frame of mind or not, he still did the act. There was nobody else on that bus holding a knife, slicing up my child,” Carol deDelley said to reporters outside a Winnipeg courthouse Wednesday.
Queen's Bench Justice John Scurfield ruled Li was clearly suffering a major mental illness when he decapitated and cannibalized his sleeping seatmate on a trip from Edmonton to Winnipeg on July 30, 2008.
DeDelley feels laws should be changed so criminals are found "not psychologically accountable, but still criminally responsible."
"Due to no fault of his own, a major illness took my son's life, but he was never sick," she said, adding that annual visits to ensure Li remains locked up will replace her son¹s birthday each year.
"We've already had our loss. It's to save everybody else. It's been put on us. We sure as hell didn't volunteer for that job, but it is ours now."
