German Courts Want Stiffer Sentence for Cannibal
Deutsche Welle
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Berlin (Germany):
German prosecutors are asking for life in prison for the German man who killed a man and ate him afterward, video taping the act about five years ago.
Armin Meiwes, 44, was convicted in January 2004 of manslaughter and given an eight-and-a-half-year sentence for cutting up a man he met through the Internet three years before when he advertised for someone willing to be eaten.
But German's highest court ruled last spring that the sentence was too lenient and that the "cannibal" face a second trial on murder charges.
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Cannibal fights new legal battles
'Murdered for sexual pleasure'
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The courts said the crime had most of the features of murder including gratuitous violence and prosecutors said it was murder because he killed to satisfy his own desire. The higher court ruled that the original trial had ignored that the video was made to satisfy the defendant's sexual desires.
Meiwes, a computer expert and former army officer admitted to killing a Berlin man and fellow computer specialist Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, 42. He was given the more lenient sentence of manslaughter because Brandes had requested he be eaten. The men them met near Meiwes' home in Rotenburg in central Germany.
The Frankfurt court will now have review the story, the motives and rewatch the video. Legal experts believe that the "cannibal" will be convicted of murder this time around. That is because during the first trial, there was little applicable law on the books that suited such a unique case.
Jan 12, 2006
Deutsche Welle
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Berlin (Germany):
German prosecutors are asking for life in prison for the German man who killed a man and ate him afterward, video taping the act about five years ago.
Armin Meiwes, 44, was convicted in January 2004 of manslaughter and given an eight-and-a-half-year sentence for cutting up a man he met through the Internet three years before when he advertised for someone willing to be eaten.
But German's highest court ruled last spring that the sentence was too lenient and that the "cannibal" face a second trial on murder charges.
___________________
See Also:
Cannibal fights new legal battles
'Murdered for sexual pleasure'
_______________
The courts said the crime had most of the features of murder including gratuitous violence and prosecutors said it was murder because he killed to satisfy his own desire. The higher court ruled that the original trial had ignored that the video was made to satisfy the defendant's sexual desires.
Meiwes, a computer expert and former army officer admitted to killing a Berlin man and fellow computer specialist Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, 42. He was given the more lenient sentence of manslaughter because Brandes had requested he be eaten. The men them met near Meiwes' home in Rotenburg in central Germany.
The Frankfurt court will now have review the story, the motives and rewatch the video. Legal experts believe that the "cannibal" will be convicted of murder this time around. That is because during the first trial, there was little applicable law on the books that suited such a unique case.
Jan 12, 2006
