Getting Away With Murder

The only Voice I hear is Tim's
Adler: Vince Li has been found not criminally responsible for the gruesome murder and beheading of Tim McLean on a Greyhound bus last summer because he is mentally ill. Both the Crown and the defence agreed that Li is a schizophrenic.. MORE...

System worked
Brodbeck: But I'm disgusted with the outcome. It may be hard to believe, but the court system that found Vince Li not criminally responsible for the death of Tim McLean actually worked well this week. I'm disgusted with the outcome. MORE...

The mentally ill who break the law deserve 'all mercy and humanity'
At the turn of the 19th century, James Hadfield fired a shot at King George III and was subsequently found "not guilty" because he was judged to be "insane" at the time he committed the act. The chief justice, Lord Kenyon, recognized that to send.. MORE...

Vincent Li isn't the one who should scare us
Asper: No one can be anything but horrified at the murder of Timothy McLean, the 22-year-old man beheaded by a crazed Vincent Li on a Greyhound Canada bus near Portage La Prairie, Man., last July. Canadians' natural, instinctive reaction to a revolting crime.. MORE...