Porn star linked to murder after body parts sent to party HQs

A CANADIAN porn actor suspected of sending body parts to the offices of the country’s Conservative and Liberal parties might have fled North America, according to police.

There were reports yesterday that Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, who adopted the pseudonyms Vladimir Romanov and Eric Clinton Newman, had fled to France.

The case emerged on Tuesday when police discovered a man’s torso in a suitcase behind Magnotta’s apartment and a severed foot was found in a package posted to the Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa. A hand was found in a separate package at a postal centre, addressed to the Liberal Party of Canada.

Montreal police chief Ian Lafreniere said: “He left a letter on a website mentioning how to disappear for good, and secondly our investigation brought us some details that might let us think that he could be away from the country,” .

Mr Lafreniere also said police had been trying to take down an online video that they believe shows Magnotta committing murder. It shows a man stabbing another man with an ice pick. The first man later reveals he has slashed the other man’s throat, dismembers the corpse and performs sexual acts with it.

For nearly two years, Magnotta’s name has reportedly been notorious among animal-rights activists looking for a man who tortured and killed animals and posted videos online.

Police discovered the severed foot when a political adviser to prime minister Stephen Harper, opened a bloodstained box at Conservative HQ. “It was such a horrible odour. I’m sure many of us will not forget it,” party spokesman Fred DeLorey said.

Police said the package had been addressed to the Conservative Party of Canada and not to a specific person.