Why You Treat Me Like a Dog?: German Court Sentences Cannibal to Life in Jail

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

German Court Sentences Cannibal to Life in Jail

This story is amazing, and has been going on for several years. He apparently was initially sentenced to only 8 years in jail after being convicted of manslaughter by a lower court (lower in more ways than one...).

The victim had apparently traveled from Berlin after answering an Internet posting placed by the cannibal under the pseudonym “Franky” seeking a young man for “slaughter and consumption." The victim reportedly wanted to be stabbed to death after drinking a bottle of cold medicine to lose consciousness. The cannibal therefore claimed that the killing was "consensual" because the victim wanted to be eaten. It was all captured on video.

“I wanted to eat him — I didn’t want to kill him,” he told the court.

A grizzlier version of the story can be found in the British paper The Guardian. He apparently first dined on the victim's "privates" together with the victim (!). He then proceeded to kill him, and had eaten 20 kg of the victim's flesh before he was arrested.

Aside from the obvious revulsion this story elicits, what's also amazing to me is that no mention is made in either linked article as to either the cannibal or the victim's mental health. I mean, come on, if anyone's crazy it's this guy, and the victim too. And is the victim really a victim? Sheesh...

At least the higher court recognized the folly of the lower court...

- posted by wanderer @ 10:11 PM

Comments:

Hey, now wouldn't that make a great J-date add! (Thanks for this lovely post Wanderer, right while I'm eating my breakfast)

# posted by

cruisin-mom : 5/10/2006 7:20 AM

My husband and I were talking about this story. How bizarre!

CM - perhaps you read it again when you are having your dinner - liver and fava beans anyone?

# posted by

... Is the Window to Our Soul : 5/16/2006 5:44 AM

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