MONTREAL - The jury at Luka Rocco Magnotta's murder trial has heard from his current psychiatrist that her patient fell in love with a male nurse in April 2013.
Dr. Renee Roy testifed this morning that the nurse worked in a wing where Magnotta was being held and had apparently complimented the accused on his clothing.
Roy said Magnotta wrote a sexually explicit letter to the nurse, who was unaware of the interest.
Magnotta later expressed disappointment when detention centre staff decided to reassign the man from the hospital infirmary.
In the afternoon, a forensic psychiatrist took the stand and said she believes Luka Rocco Magnotta was in a psychotic state the night he killed Jun Lin and that while he knew what he was doing, he didn't realize it was wrong.
Marie-Frederique Allard was hired by the defence to determine Magnotta's criminal responsibility, which is central to his defence in his first-degree murder trial.
She consulted evidence and medical records and saw Magnotta personally for about 25 hours over several meetings, beginning in December 2013.
Magnotta is standing trial on first-degree murder in the May 2012 slaying of Jun Lin.
He has admitted to killing the 33-year-old Chinese engineering student, but has pleaded not guilty by way of mental disorder.
Magnotta faces four other charges: 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.
Allard told the jury this afternoon she believes Magnotta was suffering from schizophrenia when he killed and dismembered Lin. She says Magnotta's perception of reality was skewed in the commission of all five offences with which he is charged.
