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Tuesday 17 april 2018

Canadian alleged serial killer

facing 8th murder charge

By ROB GILLIES the Toronto suburb of Scar- One alleged victim hid the
TORONTO (AP) — Canadi- borough and had no direct fact that he was gay from
an alleged serial killer Bruce family in Canada. his Muslim family. Another
McArthur is now facing an Investigators said he was was a recent immigrant
eighth murder charge — identified after they took with a drug problem. An-
the death of a Sri Lankan the rare step of releasing other alleged victim was
man who had not been re- photographs of his corpse homeless, smoked crack
ported missing. and appealed to the pub- cocaine and worked as a
Toronto police Detective lic for help. Police received prostitute.
Sgt. Hank Idsinga said Mon- more than 500 tips. Idsinga "There's enough informa- In this April 11, 2018 file photo, Toronto police Detective Sgt.
day the 66-year-old land- said identification was con- tion on the backgrounds of Hank Idsinga speaks to the media regarding an unidentified
male believed to be connected to the Bruce McArthur case,
scaper has been charged firmed with assistance of an these people that people during a press conference at the Toronto Police Headquarters
with first-degree murder in international government can draw their own conclu- in Toronto.
the death of Kirushna Ku- agency. sions on that," Idsinga said. Associated Press
mar Kanagaratnam. Police said there are cur- Police say McArthur target-
Idsinga said Kanagarat- rently no known links be- ed men he encountered be found in the planters at back to the 1975, but have
nam's remains were found tween Kanagaratnam and through dating apps that the home McArthur used as not found a connection.
at a home McArthur used the "Gay Village" of Toronto cater to gay men, meeting storage and that 75 proper- McArthur made a brief vid-
as storage for his landscap- which other victims are them at bars in the "Gay Vil- ties linked to the landscap- eo court appearance on
ing business. The remains known to have visited. lage" area of Toronto. er are under investigation. Monday to hear the new
of seven others have also The alleged victims fit a Police believe Kanagarat- Police plan to search them murder charge. He has not
been found in large plant- pattern: Most were of Mid- nam was killed between once the weather warms entered a plea. His lawyer
ers at the home. dle Eastern or South Asian Sept. 3 and Dec. 14, 2015. in early May. "We have a has previously declined to
Idsinga said Kanagarat- descent and lived on the Idsinga said he had some lot of searches still to do," comment on the case and
nam, 37, arrived from Sri margins of Canadian soci- cousins that lived in the he said. Idsinga said inves- didn't immediately respond
Lanka in 2010 and was not ety, their disappearances greater Toronto area. tigators are looking into 15 to messages for comment
on file as missing. He lived in attracting little attention. Idsinga more remains might other cold cases dating on Monday.q

Cyprus peace groups protest Syria airstrike at U.S. embassy

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — "It hasn't been proven that east Mediterranean island
Several hundred Cypriot, chemical weapons were nation, a former British col-
Palestinian and Syrian pro- used and by whom, if ony, to take part in Satur-
testers waved Syrian flags they were used," Christina day's missile strikes against
and chanted anti-Western Christofia, the daughter suspected chemical weap-
slogans in front of the U.S. of former Cyprus President ons facilities in Syria.
Embassy in Cyprus on Mon- Dimitris Christofias, said. "In Demonstrators outside the
day to condemn the Amer- our estimation, it's just an- U.S. Embassy chanted "Im-
ican-led airstrikes in Syria. other manufactured ex- perialism is the one enemy"
Protesters from a coalition cuse for another military, and "Coups, wars, terror,
of left-wing groups and imperialistic intervention." that's NATO's black lega-
Cyprus' communist-rooted Participants at the protest, cy." A group calling itself
AKEL party said the "ag- who included families with the Syrian Arab Community
gression" against Syria on small children, also criti- unfurled a banner describ-
Saturday was unjustified cized the use of Cyprus as ing the airstrikes a "reckless
without proof the regime Protestors with a banner reading in Greek "NO to the War", "Yes a launch-pad for attacks and irresponsible act" while
of President Bashar Assad in Peace" during a protest against the airstrikes on suspected against the Syrian people. a protester wrote "Hands
used chemical weapons chemical weapons sites in Syria, outside of the U.S embassy in British warplanes took off Off Syria" on the asphalt in
on its own people. capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, April 16, 2018. from a U.K. air base in the green paint.q