The defendant has admitted his crime, but is pleading insanity. How necessary is it to show this graphic, potentially upsetting, piece of evidence?

Montreal police found the final severed part of Jun Lin’s body after receiving a cryptic fax from a Toronto lawyer on July 1, 2012, a Montreal court heard Wednesday.

Jacinthe Prévost watched the online video thought to depict Jun Lin’s brutal murder before combing through the crime scene to analyze countless blood splatters, she told a Montreal court Tuesday.