Armin Meiwes Video Free In Four

By the time detectives finally knocked on the door of his farmhouse in December 2002, he had eaten about 20kg of his victim, the judge said.

Just over two hours later Armin Meiwes, the self-confessed German cannibal who killed and ate another man, left a stunned courtroom scarcely able to believe his luck.

After a unique two-month trial that has gripped both Germany and the wider world with its gory details, a judge yesterday sentenced Meiwes to a mere eight and a half years in jail after ruling that he was guilty of manslaughter and not murder.

He added: These were two psychologically sick people who found each other.

A door has been opened into a world which we immediately want to shut, a grey zone where people gather on the internet to live out their fantasies.

German prosecutors yesterday said they were considering whether to appeal against the verdict.

The cannibals lawyer, Harald Ermel, said his client was satisfied with the result, and was now considering numerous offers from film companies and publishers.

Armin Meiwes Video Free In Four

With good behaviour, Meiwes was likely to be free in four and a half years, Mr Ermel pointed out.

He has to live. Justifying his verdict, Judge Mtze yesterday described how 42-year-old Meiwes had experienced cannibal feelings as a young boy, after his father and two brothers walked out on the family home.

These feelings got stronger after the death of his domineering mother in 1999 and eventually led him to place an advert on the internet seeking someone to slaughter and eat, the court heard.

He got a reply, from Bernd Brandes, an outwardly successful manager with Siemens in Berlin with secret masochistic fantasies.

The victim offered up his body because he wanted to get the kick of his life, the judge told the court in Kassel, as Meiwes sitting next to his lawyer listened avidly.

It was, the judge said, to be the final act, the high point of his life.

In an email read to the court yesterday Brandes told the cannibal: I hope you are serious because I really want it.

In March 2001 Brandes took the day off work, wiped all evidence of his masochistic fantasies from his computer and travelled to Rotenburg by train.

He met Meiwes and went to the isolated farmhouse where he lived alone.

Meiwes then showed Brandes the slaughter room he had constructed upstairs.

Later that evening Meiwes cut off Brandes penis and both men tried - and failed - to eat it.

Meiwes then ran a bath for Brandes, the judge said, who by this stage had knocked back 20 sleeping tablets and a bottle of Vicks cold cure.

Meiwes waited for his victim to pass out by reading a Star Trek novel.

At 3.30am Meiwes laid his unconscious victim on the slaughter table and stabbed him to death.

He then hung him on a hook, cut out some of his organs, and went to bed.

The court in Kassel was told that the cannibal videoed the entire episode, and had told the dying Brandes: I cant do anything else.

The next afternoon he set about cutting off parts of Brandes, which he stored in his freezer.