He later stabbed his bleeding, unconscious victim in the throat and cut away other parts of his body. The two men had sex before Meiwes severed Brandes' penis, which they then fried and tried to eat. Meiwes, a computer technician, met Brandes after advertising on the Internet for a "slaughter victim" and invited him to his farm house. He was originally convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in 2004.īut on appeal, a federal judge dismissed the sentence as too lenient and ordered a retrial on the higher charge of murder. It was the second time Meiwes was tried for killing Bernd Jürgen Brandes in Rotenburg in western Germany in March 2001. Meiwes' crime was international news Image: AP "He had wanted everything just the way it eventually happened," the man known as the "Cannibal of Rotenburg" said last week. Meiwes, 44, had told the court that his victim, an engineer from Berlin, had a death wish and begged to be killed.
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