The murder of carnival worker, Tom McLean by a Chinese immigrant, is about breeding diplomatic row between China and Canada

 By Tosin Omoniyi

Police in Canada are still trying to unravel the circumstances surrounding the stabbing, beheading and cannibalizing of a 21 year-old carnival worker, Tom McLean, by a Chinese immigrant.

Vince Weiguang Li, who allegedly migrated to Canada, from China in 2004, is to stand trial for second degree murder for an alleged unprovoked attack on the deceased. He is yet to enter plea as at the time of filing this report.

About 37 passengers on board a greyhound bus from Edmonton Alberta en-route Winningpeg, Manitoba, on the Trans-Canada Highway recalled the macabre incident vividly: “We were on the bus, everyone engaged in one activity or the other, some were napping and others were watching ‘The legend of 2000’, when Lee attacked Mclean, apparently unprovoked, stabbed him several times in various parts of the body. As we all rushed out of the bus in horror, he cut off his victim's head, displayed it to the terrified passengers gathered outside the bus and started cutting into the body”, recounted a still horrified passenger to Canadian Law Enforcement Officers.

A policeman who did an on-the-spot assessment of the ghastly incident, reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating chunks of it. A plastic bag containing a nose, an ear and parts of a human mouth was found in his possession.

Since his arrest, Li has refused to speak with prosecutors and his government appointed legal aid. A judge attached to the Portage La Prairie court has since, on the recommendations of prosecutor Joyce Dalmin, ordered that Weiguang undergo immediate psychiatric test to ascertain his level of sanity.

Li's erstwhile employer, Tom Castor, a clergy man, claimed that his former employee never showed signs of emotional instability when he approached him for work in 2004 and had no criminal record according to the vetting of his references.

Li is due to appear again in court on September 8.