Cannibal's Victim Wanted To Be Eaten

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Cannibal's trial poses legal dilemma

Tuesday 02 December 2003, 23:19 Makka Time, 20:19 GMT
Armin Meiwes, the German computer expert who gained worldwide notoriety by killing and eating a willing human victim, stands trial on Wednesday.

The case of sexually-inspired cannibalism is so extraordinary it is expected to make legal history.

Meiwes, 42, described by his lawyer as a "gentleman of the old school", has confessed to killing a Berlin man who answered an advertisement he had posted on the Internet seeking a fit man "for slaughter."

They met in Meiwes's elegant half-timbered home in the town of Rotenburg, central Germany, in March 2001.

Meiwes killed the man, named only as Bernd-Juergen B., with a kitchen knife and filmed the deed on video tape which may be shown at the trial.

Meiwes' lawyer Harald Ermel said it took the victim nearly 10 hours to bleed to death and that he had repeatedly urged Meiwes to keep on cutting him.

Meiwes cut up the body and stored parts in his freezer. "He believes he ate about 20 kg and there were about 10 kg left over," said Ermel.

"He defrosted it little by little and ate it."

Police arrested Meiwes over a year later, in December 2002, after a tip-off from someone who had spotted another of his adverts on the Internet.

Meiwes is expected to repeat his confession at the trial that will be attended by reporters from all over the world. He is already planning to write his memoirs, his lawyer said.

Meiwes told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag last week: "I am guilty and regret what I did." He said he had eaten his victim because he wanted to make him part of himself, a desire that he had satisfied and that would not recur.

Professor Andreas Marneros, director of the Halle Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, said: "This is cannibalism as a sexual perversion, it's a phenomenon that has been known about for centuries. I have examined four such people."

Prosecutors in the city of Kassel say a psychiatric examination found Meiwes is not insane but they added that his victim may have been incapable of rational thought.

So while prosecutors acknowledge the victim said he wanted to die, they are seeking a life sentence on a charge of murder motivated by sexual urges.

Meiwes's lawyer wants him to be convicted of "killing on request", a form of illegal euthanasia which carries a sentence of six months to five years.

The problem, legal experts say, is that Meiwes's victim wanted to be eaten. That could make a murder charge difficult to apply, while the lesser charge of manslaughter carries a term of 15 years or considerably less, after which Meiwes would be free.

"This is killing undertaken for both killer and victim and cannot be regarded as the worst case of premeditated killing. But I don't think it is a killing on request either because it was not an altruistic, but an egoistic deed," Kreuzer said.

He said the case may go as high as the Federal Constitutional Court and that prosecutors may be forced to consult new medical experts to assess Meiwes's mental state.

Meiwes's lawyer has revealed that his client had four other guests in his home, but let them all go.

"There was a teacher, a cook, a hotel employee and a student. He had them hanging from the ceiling head down and they had no chance of freeing themselves. One felt sick, the other didn't want to go on, he let them all down."

Ermel said Meiwes chatted about cannibalism with at least 280 like-minded people on the Internet. In Germany about 200 people on the Internet were offering to be slaughtered, 30 ready to do the slaughtering and 10 to 15 wanting to watch, he said.

[abbycomix]

KASSEL, Germany (AP) - A German who confessed to killing, dismembering and eating another man who allegedly agreed to the arrangement over the Internet was convicted Friday of manslaughter and sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison.

A state court ruled that Armin Meiwes, a 42-year-old computer expert, had no ``base motives'' in the crime - sparing him a murder conviction.

Prosecutors had sought a life sentence, calling Meiwes a ``human butcher'' who acted simply to ``satisfy a sexual impulse.''

The defense argued that since the victim volunteered to be killed and eaten, the crime should be classified a mercy killing, which carries a five-year maximum penalty.
Before the verdict Meiwes looked calm, chatting with his attorney and occasionally grinning for cameras allowed inside the courtroom before the session began.
When his trial opened Dec. 3 in the central city of Kassel, Meiwes confessed in detail to killing Bernd Juergen Brandes, 43, in March 2001 at Meiwes' home in the town of Rotenburg.
Brandes traveled from Berlin in reply to an Internet advertisement seeking a young man for ``slaughter and consumption.'' Meiwes testified that Brandes wanted to be stabbed to death after drinking a bottle of cold medicine to lose consciousness.
``Bernd came to me of his own free will to end his life,'' Meiwes said in his closing statement in court on Monday. ``For him, it was a nice death.''
Still, he said he regretted the killing.
``I had my big kick and I don't need to do it again,'' he said. ``I regret it all very much, but I can't undo it.''
A grisly video he made of the act was shown to the court during a closed session.
A doctor testified that Brandes died from loss of blood and that the medication, along with a half-bottle of liquor and 20 sleeping pills he took beforehand, could not have lessened his pain.
Several experts have testified that Meiwes was fit to stand trial and was not mentally ill.
Police tracked down and arrested him in December 2002 after a student in Austria alerted them to a message Meiwes had posted on the Internet.
``If I hadn't been so stupid as to keep looking on the Internet, I would have taken my secret to the grave,'' Meiwes said in his closing statement.
01/30/04 06:49

[Sam The Egg]

Note to self: Never say "Eat me, bitch" again

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Originally posted by abbycomix
KASSEL, Germany (AP) - A German who confessed to killing, dismembering and eating another man who allegedly agreed to the arrangement over the Internet was convicted Friday of manslaughter and sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison.

Thanks for the update abbycomix ...:)

Originally posted by Sam The Egg

Note to self: Never say "Eat me, bitch" again

LMAO @ Sam:D

[Evisceration]

Wow, I was just about to post this....

KASSEL, Germany (AP) -- A German who confessed to killing a man he met over the Internet and eating his flesh should spend life behind bars for murder, prosecutors have demanded.

During closing arguments on Monday, prosecutor Marcus Koehler said defendant Armin Meiwes, 42, acted simply to "satisfy a sexual impulse."

He filmed himself dismembering the victim before he ate him so he could "admire himself as a human butcher," Koehler said. Meiwes considered eating his victim as a kind of twisted "communion," he added.

Defense lawyer Harald Ermel argued that the death was "homicide on demand" -- a form of mercy killing -- because the victim had given his consent to be killed and eaten. That would carry a maximum five-year prison sentence.

When his trial opened on December 3 at the state court in the central city of Kassel, Meiwes confessed in detail to the March 2001 killing of 43-year-old Bernd Juergen Brandes at his home in the nearby town of Rotenburg.

Brandes, who had traveled from Berlin after answering Meiwes' Internet postings, wanted to be stabbed to death after drinking a bottle of cold medicine to lose consciousness, Meiwes testified.

A grisly video he made of the act was shown to the court in a closed session during the trial. A doctor testified that Brandes died from loss of blood and that the medication, along with a half-bottle of liquor and 20 sleeping pills he took beforehand, could not have lessened his pain.

Several experts have testified that Meiwes was fit to stand trial and was not mentally ill.

Police tracked down and arrested Meiwes in December 2002 after a student in Austria alerted them to a message Meiwes had posted on the Internet seeking a man willing to be killed and eaten.

A verdict in the trial is expected Friday.

And here's a picture of the modern day Hannibal.

[Sam The Egg]

he looks familiar

[ProjectMayhem]

He looks a little like Stephen Hawking, without the disability.