Computer Expert Cannibalizes Engineer

Victim of cannibal agreed to be eaten

To the family next door, Armin Meiwes seemed the perfect
neighbour. He mowed their lawn, repaired their car and even invited
them round for dinner.

Other residents in the small German town of Rotenburg also believed
there was nothing odd about the 42-year-old computer expert, whose
light burned
late into the night inside his creaking mansion. Yesterday, however,
Meiwes appeared in court charged with killing – and then frying and
eating – another
man.

In one of the most extraordinary trials in German criminal history, the
self-confessed cannibal admitted that he had met a 43-year-old Berlin
engineer, Bernd Brandes, after advertising on the internet, and had chopped
him up
and eaten him.

from
the Guardian