German Cannibal Back on Trial for Eating Internet Volunteer
Image source: Yahoo! News / AFP / DDP
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
The retrial of a self-confessed cannibal began in Germany as prosecutors sought a murder conviction for the man who killed and ate an apparently willing victim he met on the Internet.
In a lurid case that shocked the country, Armin Meiwes is being retried after a federal judge threw out a January 2004 manslaughter conviction on the grounds it was too lenient, despite the victim's purported "death wish".
Cannibalism in itself is not outlawed in Germany but if it can be proven Meiwes killed to fulfill sexual desire or in order to commit another crime, in this case "disturbing the peace of the dead", he could face life in prison.
posted by Fergie @ 1/12/2006 06:33:00 AM
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