Horror: Gardener kills and mutilates eight gay men in Canada

Bruce McArthur, the alleged murderer gardener from Toronto, pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of eight people in the gay community of the Canadian city between 2010 and 2017. The eight victims of McArthur, whose names were read in court acknowledged to be his murderer, they were homobadual men and, in many cases, they belonged to ethnic minorities.

The remains of the deceased were found in large pots that McArthur, 67, had stored on the property of one of his clients who was providing gardening services in Toronto. For months after McArthur's arrest, police investigators searched for human remains of potential victims in more than 100 properties where he was working as a gardener.

The victims of McArthur have been identified as Andrew Kinsman, 49; Selim Esen, 44; Majeed Kayhan, 58 years old; Soroush Mahmudi, 50 years old; Dean Lisowick, 47; Skandaraj Navaratnam, 40 years old; Abdulbasir Faizi, 42, and Kirushnakumar Kanagaratnam, 37 years old. The prosecutors revealed that the defendant had also kept "the memory" of his victims, in the manner of jewelry; that the murders had a badual reason and that they implied a certain level of staging.

Although McArthur is sentenced to a subsequent hearing, first degree murder automatically results in life imprisonment with no possibility of parole in 25 years.

"Bruce McArthur pleaded guilty," said Detective David Dickinson. "This is the good result, but unfortunately we can not bring these men back, but I hope we can begin to solve the problem with families and communities," he added.

McArthur was arrested in January 2018 after years of rumors in Toronto's gay neighborhood about the presence of a serial killer responsible for the disappearance of several people. However, the Toronto police refused the execution of a serial killer until his arrest. Police performance has been severely criticized by LGBT rights organizations, who have denounced their lack of interest in solving crimes that affect marginalized communities.

After McArthur's arrest, it was learned that he had been convicted in 2003 for attacking a prostitute with a metal bar. The multiple murderer was questioned twice by the police. The second time, in 2016, he was questioned after a man denounced the fact that McArthur had tried to strangle him but that the authorities never charged him.

The Toronto police launched a review of dozens of missing persons between 1975 and 1995, in case they were linked to McArthur.

Source: The Mañana de Neuquén

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