MONTREAL -- Luka Rocco Magnotta stood impassively and kept his eyes trained downward as juror No. 9 rose and, in a loud, clear voice, uttered the word "guilty" five times Tuesday, including one for first-degree murder in the killing and dismemberment of Jun Lin.
After eight days of deliberations, it was a quick and sudden end to a saga that began in 2012 following a horrific, heinous crime captured in part on video and published on the Internet.
Quebec Superior Court Justice Guy Cournoyer sentenced Magnotta to life imprisonment on the murder charge, with no chance of applying for parole for 25 years.
On the four others charges, the native of Scarborough, Ont., was given the maximum terms allowed under the Criminal Code, ranging from two to 10 years. The sentences are concurrent.
The verdicts came with little fanfare. After days of silence from the jurors, Cournoyer merely told the court they were ready.
Within minutes, Magnotta had discovered his fate.
The verdicts sent a message the jurors clearly didn't accept the mental disorder defence put forward by Magnotta during the three-month trial.
His lawyer, Luc Leclair, told reporters his client was "disappointed" but "relieved" and had been preparing himself for the day of the verdicts.
"He came here to face the jury, to put his life in the jury's hands," said Leclair, who continued to argue that Magnotta is schizophrenic.
"This is the verdict, so he accepts it."
Inevitably, the Toronto-based defence attorney was asked whether he will appeal.
"Mr. Magnotta will take the time to look at the merits of an appeal, the grounds of appeal," the lawyer said. "There are some. But today is not the time to address this question. It has been a long and challenging road and I need some rest."
The Crown had sought the maximum sentences on each charge, while Leclair elected to leave it to the judge's discretion.
Magnotta, 32, did not testify at the trial and said just three words when Cournoyer asked him before the sentences were read out whether he had anything to say.
"No, your Honour," was the reply.
Crown prosecutor Louis Bouthillier said he was fully expecting the jury to deliver the five guilty verdicts.
"We're not really surprised," he said. "I thought we had good evidence of premeditation and the fact that the crime was planned and deliberate.
"It's always a great feeling for a Crown prosecutor to hear the word 'guilty' come out of the mouth of a juror at the end of a trial."
The prosecutor lauded the work of the jurors, who began hearing the case in late September, with the verdicts being read out at 11:14 a.m. on their eighth day of deliberations.
"There was close to 11 weeks of testimony," Bouthillier said.
"Obviously they had to work with difficult, very difficult legal issues. I want to salute the work of the jury. Individually, the 12 jurors were really magnificent and they did an outstanding job."
After the verdicts, a lawyer read out an impact statement on behalf of Lin's father, Diran Lin, who watched proceedings throughout the trial from a private room in the courthouse.
"I had come to see your trial system to see justice done and I leave satisfied that you have not let my son down," Daniel Urbas told the emotionally charged room.
"I had come to learn what happened to my son that night and I leave without a true or a complete answer. I had come to see remorse, to hear some form of apology, and I leave without anything."
Earlier, the trial judge also had words of praise for the jurors.
"While it may not always be obvious to everyone, a jury trial is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilization of any country," Cournoyer told them as he quoted Sir Winston Churchill.
"We have asked a lot of you but you rose to the occasion and indeed proved that real and substantive justice is a reality in action."
The other charges Magnotta was convicted of were criminally harassing Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of Parliament; mailing obscene and indecent material; committing an indignity to a body; and publishing obscene materials.
Magnotta was seeking to be found not criminally responsible in the May 2012 slaying by way of mental disorder, with experts testifying he was in a psychotic state the night of the killing and couldn't tell right from wrong.
The Crown countered the crime was planned and deliberate and that Magnotta's behaviour and actions went against someone supposedly suffering from a disease of the mind.
As Magnotta had admitted to the physical acts, the jury's task was to determine his state of mind at the time.
The criminal case captured headlines worldwide in 2012 when the little-known porn actor and escort with an enormous Internet footprint became a household name after being linked to a horrific crime posted online.
The jury heard testimony about the gruesome details of Lin's death and that many of Magnotta's actions were caught on surveillance video or in images taken by the accused himself.
They also heard about Magnotta's upbringing and delved into medical files that showed he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2001.
Roughly half of the 40 days of testimony were dedicated to forensic psychiatrists who presented duelling versions of whether Magnotta was of sound mind during the crimes.
The key piece of evidence for the Crown was an email that described Magnotta's macabre plan was actually telegraphed some six months before Lin's slaying.
A British reporter, Alex West, confronted Magnotta in London in December 2011 about cat killing videos that had created a stir online. The accused denied being the author before saying in an email to West two days later that cats were just the beginning and that his next movie would include a human subject.
The Crown said the plan was set in motion in mid-May with the filming of a mystery Colombian man, asleep and naked on Magnotta's bed while he straddled him with an electric saw in his hand.
Fifty-three seconds of that footage found its way into the "One Lunatic, One Ice Pick" video that shows Lin's dismemberment.
The mystery man, drowsy but unharmed, left Magnotta's apartment the next day with the help of the accused.
According to Magnotta, he met Lin through a Craigslist advertisement seeking a partner for bondage.
The evidence suggested that Lin had been drugged and had his throat slit. The murder itself was not caught on "One Lunatic, One Ice Pick."
In the roughly 48 hours following the slaying, Magnotta cut up Lin's body into 10 pieces, mailing the hands and feet to political offices in Ottawa and primary schools in Vancouver. He also bought a plane ticket for Paris online.
When police put out a warrant for his arrest, Magnotta emptied his bank accounts and fled to Berlin on the same day.
He was ultimately arrested in an Internet cafe in the German city on June 4, 2012, where a witness said Magnotta was reading up on himself.
He was eventually transferred to a Berlin prison hospital, where a psychiatrist's initial diagnosis was that he was psychotic.
The body parts were recovered in the trash outside Magnotta's apartment and the four locations they were mailed. Lin's skull was found in a west-end Montreal park on July 1, 2012 after a Toronto lawyer mailed directions to the body.
Packages to Ottawa contained notes referring to Harper and his wife Laureen.
Magnotta told psychiatrists he became convinced that Lin was a government agent sent to kill him and that voices in his head told him to commit the murder.
The jury heard Magnotta's voice once, through a 2011 interview surreptitiously recorded by West.
Leclair told the jury to dismiss the experts and to put themselves in the mind of someone suffering from schizophrenia. He told them to consult Magnotta's voluminous medical records, which included a schizophrenia diagnosis dating back to 2001.
Crown experts countered that Magnotta's schizophrenia diagnosis was erroneous and that he actually suffered from a variety of personality disorders, which are not mental illness.
Lin, 33, was born in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. He had only been living in Canada since 2011, realizing a long-standing dream by coming to Montreal.
Magnotta had arrived in the city just months earlier.
At the time of his death, Lin was enrolled as an engineering student at Concordia University and worked as a part-time convenience store clerk.
Lin's father says Magnotta's fate -- years to reflect on his crimes behind bars -- is not unlike the future he, Jun Lin's mother and his younger sister face.
"It causes me fresh pain to know that my son's legacy is to be remembered as a victim," Lin said in the victim impact statement. "He not only suffered in his murder but will be humiliated for each time his name is mentioned and it hurts me deeply and will hurt me forever."
