World News 04-12-2003 Cannibal`s Victim Wanted To Be Eaten who: Hannibal Lecter fan Bernd Juergen Brandes what: Wanted to be eaten, claims cannibal killer where: Germany when: Yesterday snippet: "A cannibal who admitted eating a willing victim rejected another man because he was `a bit weird`," reports The Mirror`s Allan Hall from a court in Kassel, Germany. "Armin Meiwes, 42, said the man was one of several who answered his adverts for victims on perverted websites." Meiwes was arrested in December 2002 for the murder of 41 year-old Bernd Jurgen Brandes. But he claims that Brandes shared his fantasies of achieving sexual satisfaction through mutilation. And prior to the killing, reports The Independent`s Berlin correspondent Tony Paterson, Meiwes "cut off his victim`s penis which both men consumed". They served it fried. "He said to me, if I`m tired, cut the thing off," Meiwes told the court. "I want to experience it. Then when I am unconscious, stab me to death." "The cannibal then chopped Mr Brandes into pieces and put several bits of him in his freezer, next to a takeaway pizza, and buried the skull in his garden," says The Guardian. "Over the next few weeks, he defrosted and cooked parts of Mr Brandes in olive oil and garlic, eventually consuming 20kg of human flesh before police finally turned up at his door." "After I`d done it, I felt hate, anger, happiness all at once," Meiwes went on, quoted in The Sun. "But I couldn`t regret it because this is what we both wanted. That`s why I am not guilty of murder I helped a man fulfil his biggest wish, too." [... more]

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