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Magnotta pleads not guilty again

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 29 Sep, 2014 10:55 AM

    MONTREAL - Luka Rocco Magnotta has pleaded not guilty again to five charges in connection with the slaying and dismemberment of Chinese engineering student Jun Lin in May 2012.

    Magnotta entered the pleas in a Montreal courtroom this morning as his first-degree murder trial began.

    A bilingual eight-woman, six-man jury is hearing the case and a dozen of them will be chosen to deliberate on a final verdict.

    The charges agauinst Magnotta are first-degree murder; committing an indignity to a body; publishing obscene material; criminally harassing Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of Parliament; and mailing obscene and indecent material.

    Lin's father, Diran Lin, is in the courtroom this morning along with a lawyer and translator.

    Magnotta is wearing a grey sweater, dark pants and dark-rimmed glasses. He appears heavier than when he was arrested in June 2102.

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