

In that case, Armin Meiwes, 42, was first sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for manslaughter in the 2001 death of Bernd-Jurgen Brandes, 43, a successful software engineer from Berlin. And, in the end, the fact that such gruesome facts aren't new or even particularly surprising to Germans, who witnessed a similar case a decade ago, may be the most shocking bit of this case.īack in 2004, another German cannibal faced trial for having killed a man, one who noted on a videotape that the victim and killer made together that being eaten by another human was the fulfilment of a dream. But it's not the first time such a defence has been tried here. Whether consent to be killed is a viable defence remains to be seen. came to him asking to be killed, in just the manner he carried out the act. And, he's told police, he killed him only because Wojciech S. goes on to note that he didn't use his victim sexually, either. He admits he butchered the body and buried the pieces around his rustic bed and breakfast in the Ore Mountains, along the German border with the Czech Republic.īut, in his defence, he says he didn't eat his victim-not any part of the man Dresden police have identified as Wojciech S.ĭetlef G. He's reportedly confessed to stabbing the 59-year-old German businessman in the neck. The killer, known only as Detlef G, a 55-year-old chief inspector with the Saxon Germany state police, reportedly has told investigators that he met his victim through a cannibalism website that hooks up those who want to dine on human flesh with those hoping to be eaten.
BERLIN-The would-be "chef" freely admits that he killed his human "long pig."
