Greyhound Canada beheading victim family sues bus operator and authorities

The parents of Tim McLean, the young man who was brutally attacked and beheaded while travelling on a Greyhound Canada bus in Manitoba this past summer, have decided to take the Canadian government, as well as the prominent coach operator to court. McLean’s parents allege that the coach company and local authorities did not do all that they could to save the victim’s life. This argument may be bolstered by an interview that an eyewitness gave earlier this week about how he urged police officers to shoot the attacker and enter the bus, where the culprit and the victim were as officers weighed how to proceed with the stand-off. According to a Canadian Press (CP) report, Canada’s attorney general, Greyhound and the murder suspect are all individually named in court documents.

McLean’s parents are seeking to ensure that this lawsuit will pressure Greyhound, as well as Canadian authorities into taking more stringent safety precautions on long-distance buses, in order to avoid another similarly grisly atrocity in the future.

Twenty-two year old Tim McLean was killed on July 30^th, 2008 on a Greyhound bus in rural Manitoba, when the passenger sitting next to him started to stab him repeatedly and then proceeded to behead him with a butcher’s knife. Vince Weiguang Li stands accused of committing this horrendous crime and McLean’s family are seeking $150,000 in compensation from both Li, as well as Greyhound and public authorities.

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