After Meiwes and the victim jointly attempted to eat the victims severed penis, Meiwes killed his.
#GERMAN CANNIBAL FINDS WILLING VICTIM SERIAL#
Prosecutors acknowledge Brandes appeared to have been an accomplice in his own death and consumption, all of which Meiwes recorded on videotape, but they say the accused is still guilty of murder. (Not a serial killer, But I didnt know were else to put it) Is a German man who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim whom he had found via the Internet. But the former lover said he and Brandes, who had been a happy couple since 1999, would never had made such a request. Meiwes maintains Brandes wanted to consumed and that he requested his penis be cut off and eaten.
The conflicting statements are crucial to the prosecution of the 42-year old Meiwes who, although he admitted to killing, carving up and eating Brandes in March 2001, denies committing murder. Armin Meiwes born 1 December 1961,is a German man who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim whom he had found via the Internet.After Meiwes and the victim jointly attempted to eat the victims severed penis, Meiwes killed his victim and proceeded to eat a large amount of his flesh. However, another former lover said later in the week that Brandes had never expressed a death wish or any desire for pain. The unprecedented case has proved problematic for German lawyers who discovered that cannibalism is not illegal in. On Monday, a former sexual partner of the victim, Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, testified that the dead man once offered 5,000 German marks ($2,600) to have his penis bitten off.
#GERMAN CANNIBAL FINDS WILLING VICTIM TRIAL#
The trial of Germany’s self-confessed cannibal Armin Meiwes continued this week in Kassel with the usual mix of bizarre testimony.