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Tim's
Life, Tim's Law
By
Tamara Plant
Vince
Li was found “Not Criminally
Reponsible” in March 2009
for last summer’s vicious
murder of Tim McLean on a Greyhound
Bus. Tim’s mom, Carol deDelley,
wants the NCR law to change and
is doing everything in her power
to make sure it happens.
“Tim
was my wild child,” says
Carol. “He was a rebel and
lived his life to the fullest.
Always. He would always tell me,
‘I’m gonna be famous
one day, mom. I’m gonna be
famous!’
“I
never imagined it would be for
his last day here.”
Carol
believes Tim’s death was
for a greater purpose - to bring
attention to the NCR (Not Criminally
Responsible) law that so many
Canadians didn’t know existed
until this crime was committed.
“If
I don’t bring attention to
this, if I stop talking about
it, nothing will change.”
Li
is currently being treated as
a patient - not a criminal - and
will undergo his first yearly
review June 1, 2009 to see if
he is deemed fit to reenter society.
If and when he is released, he
will not have a criminal record
despite the fact that he committed
this crime.
Carol
and her family must now endure
Li’s yearly hearings, in
hopes that their story makes a
difference to the panel of experts
who assess him. Even if Tim’s
family does attend the yearly
reviews there is no guarantee
that Li won’t be released.
How
can Carol and her family ever
heal from Tim’s murder when
they will constantly have to face
his killer?
Put
yourself in Carol’s position.
Imagine it’s your child who
was brutally murdered, decapitated,
his body ripped apart, eyes and
heart ingested by this “person.”
Imagine hearing about this crime
and praying for the family of
the victim only to find out the
next day that it’s your son.
Imagine
having to talk about your child
the way Carol has to talk about
Tim.
The
details of the murder are gory
but Carol is candid about what
happened to her son on that bus.
“Mr. Li taunted (passengers
and police) with my son’s
head and dropped it in the stairwell
(of the bus.) He continued to
ravage my son’s body, removing
all of his internal organs. When
he finally did escape out of the
bus window, he had my son’s
nose, tongue and ear in a baggie
in his pocket.
“Some
internal organs were thrown onto
the front dash of the bus, he
was in the process of trying to
remove one of his feet.
“He
ate his eyes, and he ate at least
one third of his heart muscle
as well as other tissue. Mr. Li
was observed during this attack
cannibalizing my son, and smelling
and licking his fingers.
“There
were body parts in bags in four
to six different locations in
the bus. There was a gaping hole
where his heart was ripped out.
He was pulp. His body was pulp.”
All
of this took place over a span
of almost 5 hours.
Five
hours. While the police stood
outside the bus and did nothing.
Now
look at the pictures of Tim’s
short life and imagine those are
pictures of you and your child,
from the time of his birth to
the time of his death. Wouldn’t
you do everything in your power
to change the law?
No
mom should ever have to describe
her child’s murder but Carol
does it in hopes that Tim’s
death raises awareness to the
NCR law.
Carol
wants justice for a crime no one
is being punished for.
She
has started an organization called
the deDelley Foundation for Life
and is trying to bring awareness
to the completely ridiculous law
that takes care of the criminal
and forgets about the victim.
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