canada murder trial hears of body parts in mailed parcels

MONTREAL (Reuters)-
A Canadian man who admitted the killing and dismemberment of a Chinese student sent a pack of body parts, pink paper towels and hands
On Tuesday, jurors were told that they had written notes for primary schools and political parties.
Graphic evidence submitted on the second day of the 32-year-old Luka Magnotta trial, including police testimony about the bloody smell of the Magnotta Montreal apartment, and found a broken head in the city park a few weeks after the killing.
Magnotta confessed to killing Lin, 33, in June, but to include the first
Murder, insulting Lin\'s body, playing a video of the killing, and mailing the cut-off body parts.
His lawyer said maniota was not criminally responsible for mental illness.
The government says maniota plans to commit murder within six months of the 2012 incident.
Police and forensic witnesses testified about the materials found in the Magnotta apartment and the terrible contents of the packages mailed to Ottawa and Vancouver.
Montréal police forensic investigator Chantal Turmel told the court that she was sent to the apartment in Magnotta because a video was posted online showing a naked man dismemberment and his
The live photos shown to the jury by Turmel also show red spots on the bathroom sink, bathtub and floor as well as inside the refrigerator and refrigerator.
\"There was a smell that was a little bad when we removed the mattress,\" Turmel said . \".
Another police witness showed a photo of the skull found in the Park a month after the Montreal court was killed.
Jurors were also shown photos of packages sent to two primary schools in Vancouver and the Ottawa party office, as well as personal exhibitions of the contents of those packages, include items marked with the words \"black garbage bags wrapped on your feet.
The four packages were sent out on May 2012.
The package sent to the school contained pink paper towels and threatening notes on pink notes.
There is a poem in it: \"The rose is red, the violet is blue, and the police need a dental record to identify you bitch.
Investigators say a note in the box sent to the political parties mentioned the name of the wife of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The publication ban imposed by the court at the preliminary hearing prohibits media coverage of certain details of the case.
Explicit details of capturing Magnotta were published in an international search, but could not be repeated until submitted at trial.
The jury was not isolated.
The government is trying to prove that Magnotta started planning to kill a person and shoot a movie at least six months before Lin 2012 was killed.
Prosecutor Louis boutrie said on Monday that on 2011, six months before the murder, a so-called email from Magnotta to a journalist indicated that Lin\'s murder was planned.
Defense lawyer Luc Leclair said on Monday that Magnotta has been seen by different psychiatrists for many years and that he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in Montreal in 2012.
Other psychiatrists have diagnosed him with mental division, lakeler said.
Prosecutors say the jury will also see a video allegedly made by Magnotta, which shows the murder in the Magnotta apartment.
Jeremy Lin\'s father, Jeremy Lin, traveled from China to Montreal to attend the trial.
The killing in early 2012 shocked Canadians and made headlines around the world.
Magnotta is the object of international pursuit.
He was arrested at an Internet cafe in Berlin where he was reading about himself.