难以置信的是,从他的履历看,嫌犯竟是“上进进取”的有为青年,太让人惊心了。
York U murder accused in court
TORONTO — The clean-cut former York University graduate charged with the first-degree murder of foreign student Qian Liu made a brief appearance in a North York bail court Thursday morning and was remanded in custody until April 26.
Brian Dickson, 29, a former student diplomat and politician, was dressed in a white button-down shirt and jeans and seemed to glance and nod at an elderly couple standing at the back of the crowded Finch Ave. W. courtroom
Liu's partially clad body was discovered in her basement apartment last Friday morning.
The 23-year-old had been talking on her webcam with her boyfriend in China when she went to answer the door at about 1 a.m.
He watched in horror as the intruder grew violent when Liu rejected the man's embrace. As a struggle ensued, her webcam suddenly went dead. It took her frantic boyfriend hours to contact friends and alert them to what he had witnessed.
Police found Liu's body naked from the waist down but with no signs of trauma. They are now awaiting toxicology results to determine her cause of death. With his chiselled good looks, Dickson has a long resume of volunteer work and student diplomacy.
An executive assistant intern to the president of the Atlantic Council of Canada in2008, he's a graduate of York University's McLaughlin College where he studied global politics.
He was the co-founder of the York model NATO organization which won outstanding delegation in its first year of operation at the Carleton Model NATO Conference. He was twice elected vice president of the undergraduate political science council and was a two-year delegate on the York Model United Nations. He served as a councilor representing McLaughlin College in the York Federation of Students. Outside of York, his bio lists him as a long-time volunteer with a Pakistani aid organization.
"He has also been a running instructor and continually strives to get his parents to eat healthier food," his bio continues, "a challenge which boggles his mind on a regular basis.