Luka Magnotta
| Luka Rocco Magnotta | |
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The Berlin Police mugshot of Luka Magnotta taken following his arrest.
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| Born |
Eric Clinton Kirk Newman July 24, 1982 Scarborough, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Other names | Vladimir Romanov Mattia Del Santo "Jimmy" "Justin" "Angel" Kirk Trammel |
| Occupation | Model, sex worker |
| Criminal charge | first-degree murder; committing an indignity to a body; criminally harassing Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of Parliament; mailing obscene and indecent material; publishing obscene materials. |
| Criminal penalty | Automatic life sentence with no possibility of parole for 25 years plus 19 years to be served concurrently |
| Criminal status | Imprisoned |
| Conviction(s) | Convicted on all counts, December 23, 2014 |
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Capture status
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apprehended June 4, 2012 in Berlin following an international manhunt |
| Imprisoned at | TBD |
Luka Rocco Magnotta (born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman; July 24, 1982) is a Canadian murderer, convicted of killing and dismembering Lin Jun, a Chinese international student, before mailing Lin Jun's limbs to elementary schools and federal political party offices. This act gained international notoriety. After a video depicting the murder was posted online in May 2012, Magnotta fled Canada, becoming the subject of an Interpol Red Notice and prompting an international manhunt. He was apprehended at an Internet café in Berlin while reading news about himself in June 2012. After eight days of deliberations, a jury convicted him of first-degree murder on December 23, 2014.
He was previously sought by animal rights groups for allegedly uploading videos of himself killing kittens.
Magnotta was born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman on July 24, 1982 in Scarborough, Toronto. He attended I. E. Weldon Secondary School in Lindsay.
In 2003, he began to appear in pornographic videos, occasionally working as a stripper and a male escort. He appeared as a pin-up model in a 2005 issue of Toronto's fab magazine using the pseudonym "Jimmy". In 2007, he was an unsuccessful competitor in OUTtv's reality series COVERguy. Magnotta had multiple cosmetic surgeries and auditioned for the Slice network television show Plastic Makes Perfect in February 2008.
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