German cannibal gets 8/12 years for eating victim

"BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man who killed and ate a willing victim faces the prospect of a stiffer sentence at a retrial starting on Thursday for a crime that continues to horrify and enthral.

Armin Meiwes, 44, was convicted of manslaughter and given an 8-1/2-year jail term in January 2004 for cutting up a man he met via the Internet three years before."

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This is perhaps the stupidist thing I have ever heard of in my life. A man mutilates, tortures, murders and eats his victim then gets 8-1/2 years because the vistim "ASK TO BE EATEN". This is truley sick, read the sorted details............

OH my lets be enlightened like Europe...........yeahhhh

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[edit on 11-1-2006 by pantha]

The one word that stuck out to me their was willing

Is this a joke? He met him online and willingly allowed this nut to eat him? This has to be the craziest thing I have ever heard. I wonder if they explored putting this guy in an institution to check out his screws. Seems like a few of them are alittle loose.

Is anyone else disturbed by this?

Wow. what a light sentence for a murdering cannibal.

I saw on CNN yesterday about how this man was going to jail for 12 years for trying to extort money from Wendys!

A murdering madman? Well, he gets 8 and a half years. No biggie.

See, thats how it works. They keep the non-violent offenders in, let the violent
offenders out, the violent offenders attack people, and you hear ''we need more prisons, we need more prisons.'' This isnt just Germany.

We (USA) have more prisons than Russia does: 6.5 million! World record!

Actually, thats not true. China doesnt call it prisons, but they have 35 million in ''re-education centers'' so I guess Im wrong about the world record.

[edit on 18-1-2006 by LetKnowledgeDrop]

wow what ever the victim was smoking it must have been some crazy shi* if smoking it made him willing to be eaten by a cannibal. why would anyone say yes, cannibal you can eat me? theres nothing in for the person exept a horrible death. something went terribly wrong somewhere in that victims life.