Crown Psychiatrist Says Magnotta Not Likely Psychotic When He Killed Lin

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Crown psychiatrist in the Magnotta murder trial, Dr. Gilles Chamberland, mentioned in his testimony on Wednesday that Luka Magnotta was aware that he was doing something wrong when killing Chinese student Jun Lin and likely wasn’t schizophrenic at the time. Chamberland is suspected to be the final witness before the jury begins deliberations next week in the two-month murder trial.

Chamberland’s report pointed out that “the last psychiatrist who evaluated Mr. Magnotta…did not reach a diagnosis of schizophrenia,” referring to an assessment at the Jewish General Hospital almost a month before the killing. The assessment found that Magnotta had borderline personality disorder. Meanwhile, Chamberland alleged that his report is only ten pages because Magnotta refused to meet the Crown psychiatrist. Consequently, Chamberland confessed to have partially relied on much lengthier reports from defence psychiatrists and concluded that Magnotta “was likely in contact with reality when he committed the actions.” In addition to that, Chamberland stated that Magnotta was “able to judge the nature and the quality of what he did and to know that what he did was wrong.”

32-year-old Magnotta has confessed to killing and dismembering 33-year-old Lin on May 25, 2012, in Magnotta’s Montreal apartment. The former porn actor is asking the jury to declare him not criminally responsible due to psychosis as his psychiatrists find that he either didn’t know right from wrong or couldn’t apply his moral compass. Whereas, the Crown has argued that Magnotta is faking psychosis in order to avoid prison.