Magnotta’s Psychiatrist Says He Showed ‘Gamesmanship’ by Warning about Filmed Killing

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Luka Magnotta’s defence psychiatrist, Dr. Joel Watts, has admitted that he showed “gamesmanship” and warned about a snuff film six months before he killed Jun Lin. However, Watts still maintained that Magnotta filmed dismemberment of Lin on May 25, 2012, which assuredly happened during a psychotic episode when he didn’t know right from wrong.

During an interview, Watts revealed that Magnotta admitted to being the author of an e-mail to the U.K. Sun newspaper in December 2011 after videos of cat killings appeared online. The e-mail in question said that “next time you hear from me it will be in a movie I am producing that will have some humans in it, not just pussies,” adding that “once you kill and taste blood, it’s impossible to stop.” After his arrest, Magnotta informed Watts that he was paranoid and sent the e-mail under a pseudonym to scare away British journalists.

During cross-examination with Crown prosecutor Louis Bouthillier, Watts was inquired on Tuesday that “perhaps he was simply understanding that they would infer that it was him,” “So he played games with them?” She replied that “yes, there was a certain degree of gamesmanship going on. He told me that…not that he was playing a game because he thought it was fun, he was trying to intimidate them.” The entire Magnotta case depends on the question whether or not he was in the correct state of mind on and around the day he killed 33-year-old Lin. 32-year-old Magnotta used two kitchen knives to cut the Chinese student’s body into ten pieces while a camera rolled.