![]() ![]() I am a 44 years old and grew up in northeastern China in the province of Liaoning. The formal interview, which lasted about 45 minutes, is as follows, verbatim: His answers were rather direct and succinct, revealing a person who has given much contemplation to this tragedy and "his guilt." Li was soft spoken, using simple English as English is not his first language. Li and I had enjoyed a Chinese meal that I had brought to him. What follows is the result of an edited interview that took place at Selkirk Mental Health Centre after Mr. However, I think the media has been more favourable to the McLean family, probably because public sentiment is on their side and we as a country have entered a period of "tough on crime" with little attention paid to restorative justice, rehabilitation, recovery and redemption, or the influence and role of mental illness in this particular most unfortunate incident. There are no easy answers to the many faceted questions that bombard both families and the media. I hope that such self-questioning softens my response to the many questions I have been asked about my personal and professional knowledge of Mr. RCMP officers investigate the killing of Tim McLean, 22, aboard a Greyhound bus in Manitoba on July 30, 2008. What we have here are two victims and two families who are victims of untreated, uncontrolled psychosis.īefore I do any interview regarding the Greyhound Bus tragedy, I always ask myself, "What if it had been my 25-year-old daughter?" Li’s story needs to be told, to add a human touch to a horrible tragedy. I have been visiting Li on an average of once every two months since his remand to Selkirk Mental Health Centre 4 four years ago. On May 19, 2012, I Chris Summerville, CEO of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada, held my regular meeting with Vince Li, the person living with schizophrenia who beheaded Tim McLean. Here is the release of the transcript with a preamble from Summerville: Interview with a killer: Vince Li speaks While he is not advocating Li's immediate release, Summerville said there is little public understanding of the nature of schizophrenia and its treatment with medication. hold a characterization of him that is just not true of him." "I don't think anytime soon because of public sentiment," he said, adding the perception of Li is "rooted in fear and in some people, in hate and in vengeance. The horrific nature of Li's act has demonized him in the public's mind, said Summerville. The unjustified public fears about Li will probably keep him in a mental-health hospital longer than necessary, Summerville said. ![]() "But it's an extremely difficult and a very private thing," she added. ![]() I think for the advancement of my own soul, I think that that's going to be a necessary thing," she said. ![]() Now you take him off those meds for a while and see what kind of an interview you would get," she said.Īt the same time, de Delley said she is trying to forgive her son's killer. "You're interviewing an individual who has gone through treatment and meds and come to this place where he's come to these realizations. after McLean's killing, and presumably after an interview with police.Ī call to North American Midway Entertainment seeking information about the woman wasn't returned on Monday.The mother of the man beheaded by Vince Li says the interview underscores her point that he should remain locked up.Ĭarol de Delley said she is unmoved by Li's apology and remorse. They only know that she quickly returned to B.C. McLean's family now want to speak with Stacy - they don't know her last name - to find out more about her dealings with Li. They were travelling together to Winnipeg - although seated separately in different areas of the bus - and had planned to meet up with a mutual friend in the city before heading to British Columbia. Tim and Stacy had become friends while working together at various western Canadian fairs through North American Midway Entertainment. "I have this unbelievably strong feeling that him sitting beside Stacy had something to do with this," McLean's former girlfriend, Alexandra Storey, told the Free Press in an exclusive interview Monday. McLean's family and friends don't believe Li's change-of-seating was a coincidence. Moments later, McLean was being repeatedly stabbed until he was decapitated. The pair talked and were seen smoking together during a rest stop.Īs the bus resumed its journey towards Winnipeg, Li suddenly moved to the back of the bus and sat beside McLean. Li, 40, took a seat at the front of the bus beside a woman named Stacy after getting on board in Brandon. The seeds for Tim McLean's brutal murder on board a Greyhound bus last week may have been planted when the man accused of his murder, Vince Li, spent nearly an hour chatting up the victim's co-worker during their ride through western Manitoba, the Winnipeg Free Press has learned. ![]()
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