A judge on Monday set a trial date of September 15, 2014 for a Canadian ex-porn actor accused of premeditated murder in the grisly killing and dismemberment of a 33-year-old Chinese student.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, 30, pleaded not guilty last June to first-degree murder and other charges, including committing indignities to a body and harassing Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Police have said that Magnotta, a one-time gay porn actor and sex worker, stabbed his victim with an ice pick before carving up his body, sexually abusing the corpse, filming the act and posting the video online.
Days after Lin’s death, police discovered the victim’s torso in a suitcase by the trash outside an apartment along a busy highway in Montreal.
His severed hands and feet were sent through the mail to federal political parties in Ottawa and to two schools in Vancouver. The head was found in a Montreal park two months later.
The media dubbed Magnotta the “Canadian Psycho” after it was discovered that the soundtrack from the movie “American Psycho” was playing in the background of a video of the alleged murder that was posted online.
'Canadian Psycho' trial set for September 2014
