Porn actor accused of threatening PM

Police in Paris are searching for a self-proclaimed porn star suspected of killing and cutting up a university student in Canada, authorities in Montreal said Sunday.

Lawyers for a man accused of a gruesome killing and dubbed the "the Canadian Psycho" will ask a judge to ban the public from his preliminary hearing scheduled to start next week, the defense told AFP on Monday.

ROGERIO BARBOSA/AFP/Getty ImagesJun Lin's father, Diran Lin, leaves the courthouse with an interpreter on Monday. MONTREAL — A preliminary hearing for Luka Rocco Magnot

ROGERIO BARBOSA/AFP/Getty ImagesJun Lin's father, Diran Lin, leaves the courthouse with an interpreter on Monday. MONTREAL — A preliminary hearing for Luka Rocco Magnot

In a potent reminder of the arbitrary censorial powers of Canadian liquor authorities, a rum cheekily named for pornographic actor Ron Jeremy was pulled from Manitoba store shelves after customers complained it was obscene. Dubbed Ron de Jeremy, the liquor’s label features an image of Ron Jeremy’s face above the taglines “the adult liquor” and “long smooth taste.”

MONTREAL — A judge has ordered accused killer Luka Rocco Magnotta to stand trial on a first-degree murder charge in the death of Chinese student Jun Lin. Quebec court Judge Lori-Renee Weitzman has concluded there is enough evidence to send Magnotta to trial. Her decision in Montreal today comes after a lengthy preliminary hearing that featured 32 Crown witnesses. The defence presented no witnesses.

TORONTO — Luka Rocco Magnotta, accused of killing and dismembering a Chinese student, was treated for paranoid schizophrenia, though his pyschiatrist said he didn’t always take his medication. A letter from a psychiatrist who saw Magnotta, 30, is attached to the court file on a 2005 conviction for fraud and references the diagnosis of the “major psychiatric disorder.” The letter was released today after several media outlets fought for it to be made public.

FacebookDavid Michael Vincett, 20, was shot and killed on Sept. 25 2011 on Boyd Street in Winnipeg. At 13 years old he levelled a sawed-off shotgun at a Canada Post worker.