Bus Beheader Begs For Death

Portage la Prairie, Manitoba (AHN) - "Please kill me." These were the only words muttered in court Tuesday by the man who stabbed to death a bus passenger in Manitoba before beheading the victim and eating his flesh.

Vince Weiguang Li uttered the words after shaking his head in response to a judge's question if he wanted an attorney. The judge ordered another hearing on Friday.

The hearing on Tuesday was supposed to determine if the Chinese migrant should be subjected to psychiatric testing before trial. Prosecutor Joyce Dalmyn urged the evaluation in view of new details about the unprovoked and gruesome killing of carnival worker Tim McLean, 22, on Wednesday night.

The prosecutor told the judge that police who arrested Li found in his pocket a plastic bag containing the cut nose, ear and part of the victim's mouth.

The killing happened inside a Greyhound bus traveling along a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway near Portage la Prairie while en route from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Horrified passengers and the driver fled the bus while Li was stabbing McLean.

Later, they saw Li showing the severed head of the victim. A police officer also saw Li hacking pieces of the victim's body and eating the flesh.