47 Facts About Luka Magnotta

Luka Magnotta was given a mandatory life sentence and 19 years for other charges, to be served concurrently.

Luka Magnotta was previously sought by animal rights groups for uploading videos of himself killing kittens.

Luka Magnotta had come to Canada in 2010 with the intention of starting a new life there and to study computer engineering.

Luka Magnotta moved into a Griffintown-area apartment with a roommate on May 1,2012.

Luka Rocco Magnotta was born on Eric Clinton Kirk Newman and was born on July 24,1982, in Scarborough, Ontario, the son of Anna Yourkin and Donald Newman.

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Luka Magnotta's father was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1994, after which he divorced Magnotta's mother, leading Magnotta to move in with his grandmother, Phyllis.

Luka Magnotta appeared as a pin-up model in a 2005 issue of Toronto's fab magazine, using the pseudonym Jimmy.

Luka Magnotta legally changed his name from Eric Clinton Kirk Newman to Luka Rocco Magnotta on August 12,2006.

Luka Magnotta declared bankruptcy in March 2007, owing $17,000 in various debts.

In 2007, Luka Magnotta was an unsuccessful competitor in OUTtv's reality series COVERguy.

Luka Magnotta has had multiple cosmetic surgeries, and had auditioned for the Slice network television show Plastic Makes Perfect in February 2008.

Luka Magnotta created many profiles on various Internet social media and discussion forums over several years to plant a variety of claims about himself.

Police stated that Luka Magnotta set up at least 70 Facebook pages and 20 websites under different names.

One such rumour emerged in 2007, claiming Luka Magnotta was in a relationship with Karla Homolka, a high-profile Canadian convicted murderer, which Luka Magnotta denied in a subsequent interview with the Toronto Sun.

In 2005, Luka Magnotta, who was going by his birth name at the time, was convicted of one count of impersonation and three counts of fraud : he had taken advantage of a mentally disabled young woman by convincing her to apply for credit cards and then using those cards himself to purchase over $10,000 worth of goods.

Luka Magnotta pleaded guilty, and received a nine-month conditional sentence with 12 months of probation.

The court noted at the time that Luka Magnotta had "significant psychiatric issues" and did not always take his medication.

In 2010, Luka Magnotta posted on YouTube a video titled 1 boy 2 kittens, in which he deliberately suffocated two kittens in a plastic bag with a vacuum cleaner.

Luka Magnotta later published a second video of himself, this time drowning a cat in a bathtub.

Luka Magnotta was initially dubbed the "Vacuum Kitten Killer" by the online animal activists.

The Internet community which had identified Luka Magnotta reported him to authorities, warning that after committing acts of animal cruelty, he might pose a threat to humans.

Luka Magnotta's boss became suspicious when he did not show up for his shift the next day.

Several hours after killing Lin, Luka Magnotta booked a round-trip ticket for a flight from Montreal to Paris, using a passport with his own name.

An arrest warrant for Luka Magnotta was issued by the Service de police de la Ville de Montreal, later upgraded to a Canada-wide warrant by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, accusing him of the following crimes:.

The red notice requested that Luka Magnotta be provisionally arrested pending extradition back to Canada by any Interpol member state.

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Luka Magnotta used a false passport with the name "Kirk Trammel" at the hotel.

Luka Magnotta had contacts in Paris from a previous visit in 2010, and police were following a large-framed man who had been in contact with Magnotta.

Luka Magnotta then boarded a Eurolines bus at the Bagnolet coach station bound for Berlin, Germany.

On June 4,2012, Luka Magnotta was apprehended by Berlin Police at an internet cafe in the Neukolln district while reading news stories about himself.

Luka Magnotta tried giving fake names before admitting who he was.

On June 18,2012, Luka Magnotta was delivered to Canadian authorities in Berlin, and flown aboard a Royal Canadian Air Force CC-150 Polaris to Mirabel International Airport, north of Montreal.

Luka Magnotta was placed into solitary confinement at the Riviere-des-Prairies detention centre.

Luka Magnotta was named Canadian Newsmaker of the Year by The Canadian Press, which caused controversy.

Luka Magnotta had to serve half of the six-month sentence under house arrest.

On June 19,2012, Luka Magnotta appeared in court by video link to plead not guilty to all charges through his lawyer.

Luka Magnotta pleaded not guilty, admitting to the acts of which he was accused but claiming diminished responsibility due to mental disorders.

Luka Magnotta said none could be definitively linked to the killing and that no skeletal marks suggested the screwdriver or scissors were used, but some were consistent with saw and knife or X-Acto blade injuries.

Luka Magnotta told a psychiatrist who interviewed him about the night he killed Lin that a person named "Manny" - whom he said was an abusive client from his escort service - was there urging him to kill.

Luka Magnotta will serve a mandatory life sentence and will be eligible for parole after 25 years.

Luka Magnotta was sentenced to 19 years for other charges, to be served concurrently.

Luka Magnotta filed an appeal for the convictions to be annulled and new trial ordered.

Defence expert Dr Joel Watts testified that Luka Magnotta showed signs of episodic schizophrenia, histrionic personality disorder, borderline personality traits and paraphilia not otherwise specified.

The prosecution revealed that Luka Magnotta had been using illegal drugs during his teenage years which led to symptoms that mimicked schizophrenia and that Luka Magnotta had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder by Crown expert Dr Joel Paris at Jewish General Hospital in Montreal in April 2012.

Dr Gilles Chamberland, another Crown expert who was not able to interview Luka Magnotta, suggested that Luka Magnotta showed signs of antisocial, histrionic, and narcissistic personality disorders.

Luka Magnotta testified that Magnotta's actions at the time of the murder were best explained by histrionic personality disorder.

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The prosecution accused Luka Magnotta of pretending to be schizophrenic since his defence pleaded diminished responsibility due to alleged schizophrenia, and noted that a number of psychiatrists over the years found that Luka Magnotta displayed antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personality traits.

On June 8,2012, the Los Angeles Police Department announced they were in contact with Montreal police to determine if Luka Magnotta was involved in the then-unsolved murder and decapitation of Hervey Medellin, known as the "Hollywood Sign Murder", but later announced that they did not believe he was involved in the crime.