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Father of dismembered Chinese student calls Canadian killer ‘worse than a beast’

By Nelson Wyatt MONTREAL (Reuters) – The Canadian man convicted of dismembering a Chinese student was “worse than a beast”, the student's father said on Monday. Diran Lin, speaking for the first time since a jury last week found Luka Magnotta guilty of first degree murder, said the 2012 killing of his only son had crippled the Lin family. Magnotta, 32, had admitted to killing and dismembering engineering student Jun Lin, 33, but pleaded not guilty on grounds of mental illness. “He is a beast … worse than a beast,” Lin told reporters through a translator. …