Canada beheading suspect facing arraignment

It is expected that a judge in Canada will decide today whether a man charged with beheading another passenger on a Greyhound bus should undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Vince Weiguang Li, a 40-year-old passenger on a Greyhound bus in the Canadian prairies, has been accused of second-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old Tim McLean, also a passenger on the bus. He allegedly stabbed and decapitated the victim on board the bus on 31 July.

The accused appeared in a Manitoba court last Friday but remained silent throughout the proceedings.

No motive for the attack has been determined by police. The incident occurred in the midst of a number of terrified passengers.

Witnesses to the murder who were on board the bus, said that Li, a church custodian, stabbed McLean 50 to 50 times. McLean was seated next to Li on the bus, which was travelling across a stretch of the vast prairie land of Manitoba.

According to the other passengers, Li then severed his victim’s head with a large knife, and made threatening gestures in their direction with the knife as well.

Intercepted radio transmissions from the police were found on the Internet, indicating that the attacker had been seen eating the victim’s flesh.

Witnesses on board the bus commented that it did not seem that Li was acquainted with the victim, who was sleeping at the time of the attack, and that the attack appeared to begin without warning.

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