Magnotta Trial Hears His Confession of Killings Cats

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Luka Magnotta murder trial heard Magnotta admit on Tuesday to have filmed himself suffocating two cats in plastic bags, although he alleged that a man named “Manny” forced him to do it. Prior to the confession, the Toronto porn actor denied in a December 2011 media interview to be the one suffocating the cats in the infamous internet videos.

Mr. Magnotta allegedly confessed for the first time almost ten months back in an e-mail to Toronto criminal lawyer, Craig Penney. The trail heard that Magnotta told Penney to have killed the animals in New York City in December 2010. Reading a court document, defence psychiatrist Marie-Frederique Allard alleged that “we see two cats in a bag, killed by suffocation,” adding that “(Magnotta) said he was forced to do it on orders from a client.” Allard said that “Mr. Magnotta said…the client threatened to kill him if he didn’t kill the cats. He mentioned that the client’s name was Manny Lopez.”

The defence has highlighted Magnotta’s cat-killing confession in an attempt to convince the jury that he’s not criminally responsible for killing and dismembering 33-year-old Chinese student Jun Lin. According to defence psychiatrist, Magnotta was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic and should be deemed as incapable of applying his moral compass on May 25, 2012, i.e. when he killed Lin. In her expert’s report, Allard wrote that Magnotta blamed voices in his head and a “weird energy” for making him stab Lin and cut his body to pieces with a camera rolling.