The German cannibal today was found guilty of manslaughter, in every sense of the word manslaughter.
But the state judges in Kassel, Germany, acquitted Armin Meiwes, a 42-year-old computer expert from Rotenburg, of murder in the March 9, 2001, death of Bernd Juergen Brandes, 43, also a computer specialist, from Berlin.
Brandes volunteered to be eaten, making the murder charge difficult to argue. Meiwes had placed an advertisement in the Internet, asking for "young men for real slaughter and consumption."
Brandes wrote that he wanted to be Meiwes’ main dish, and traveled to Meiwes' Rotenburg house, where Meiwes recorded the ghastly act on videtape.
First, Meiwes and Brandes both shared one of Brandes’ body parts, fried. Meiwes gave Brandes cold medicine and sleeping pills to make him drowsy, and he completed the carving on a butcher’s table.
After dinner, Weiwes put the leftovers in his freezer.
For the next eight and a half years, Meiwes will be having his meals in prison. He’s not likely to have a cellmate.
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