Porn performer hunted over posting body parts

Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, is wanted for homicide, said Montreal police.

According to an official close to the investigation, Magnotta worked as a porn actor and there is video of the crime.

Magnotta, believed to originally be from Toronto, was renting an apartment in a working-class Montreal neighbourhood, behind which police found a man’s torso in a suitcase on Tuesday.

The same day, a foot was found in a parcel mailed to the Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa, and a hand was found in a package at a postal warehouse in the Canadian capital.

Early tests showed the three body parts come from the same man, police said. The packages with the foot and the hand had been mailed to Ottawa from Montreal.

Montreal Police Commander Ian Lafreniere said the suspect and the victim knew each other, and it was not linked to organised crime.

“We’re talking about a very disturbed person. It’s very graphic. We’re still missing parts of the body,” Mr Lafreniere said.

Police said Magnotta is also known by the names Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov.