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The killer who cooked his dinner guests flashes his teeth at the judge as eight-year jail term is increased to lifeTHE longest-running horror show in modern German legal history, the stomach-churning trial of Armin Meiwes, the Cannibal of Rotenburg, ended yesterday with a clear verdict: a life jail term for murdering a man in order to eat his organs. As the Frankfurt judges pronounced sentence, Meiwes swayed, nodded, briefly flashed his notorious teeth at the bench and then disappeared through a concealed door to begin a sentence that is expected to last about 15 years. Behind him he left grisly,...

Hollywood actor Tom Cruise is planning to eat his new baby's placenta, it emerged today.It is the latest in a series of unusual revelations by the 43-year-old Mission Impossible star about the child he is expecting with fiancee Katie Holmes. He told GQ magazine: "I'm gonna eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I'm gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there." Cruise has also claimed he knew actress Holmes, 27, was pregnant, even before she told him. A follower of Scientology, he has defended the religion's belief that women should give birth in silence....

  Murder charges filed in cannibal case 'Fantasies getting weirder and weirder,' suspect wrote in blog PURCELL, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Prosecutors filed first-degree murder charges Monday against a grocery store clerk accused of killing a 10-year-old neighbor in a bizarre scheme to consume human flesh.Kevin Ray Underwood remained in a Oklahoma jail cell under a suicide watch. He is being arraigned Monday afternoon in the slaying of Jamie Rose Bolin.Bolin's aunt, Linda Chiles, said Monday that she hopes Underwood is convicted and put to death."I feel sorry for his family. I feel sorry for our family," Chiles told reporters. "What...

A German court has banned the screening of a film based on the case of self-confessed cannibal Armin Meiwes. The state court in Kassel upheld a complaint from Meiwes, 44, against the film Rohtenburg, which was due for release in Germany on 9 March. The court ruled that Meiwes' rights as an individual outweighed artistic freedom and that he should not become the object of a horror film. Meiwes, jailed for eight-and-a-half years in 2004, is facing a retrial. He admitted that in March 2001 he killed a 43-year-old man and partially ate him. He was jailed for manslaughter. Meiwes...

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH Alleged fetus eater focus of new legislation Kansas considers bill to regulate conditions of abortion, medical clinics -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 15, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Shockingly unsanitary conditions discovered at an abortion clinic in which the proprietor was accused of eating a fetus have prompted consideration of a bill by the Kansas Legislature to tighten up regulations for all medical facilities. Last spring, Krishna Rajanna's abortion clinic in Kansas City was raided after former employees made allegations of coffee cups full of syringes, medical tools stored near toilets and fetuses stored...

"A 29-year old Swedish man who killed two women, drank their blood and ate their flesh has been sent to a secure hospital after he was convicted of murder by a court in Gävle on Thursday. The man had admitted his guilt from the outset, and his defence team agreed with the prosecution that he should be sent to a secure mental hospital, after doctors had said that he had a severe psychiatric disorder. The level of agreement between the defence and prosecution was very unusual for the Swedish system. The man killed the first of his victims, an 18-year...

44-year-old could face stiffer sentence for killing, eating willing victim FRANKFURT - A convicted German cannibal returned to court on Thursday for a retrial to determine if his killing and eating of a willing victim amounted to murder. Photographers’ flashbulbs greeted the arrival in a packed court of a handcuffed Armin Meiwes, a computer repairman who had cut up and consumed a man he had met via the Internet. Meiwes was first sentenced in January 2004 to 8-1/2 years for manslaughter, but the Supreme Court ruled last April that the judges had been too lenient and ordered a retrial.

Hollywood star Forest Whitaker who is playing Idi Amin in the screen version of the acclaimed novel The Last King of Scotland, says the late Ugandan dictator was no saint, but was not the monster that has been portrayed in the West. In a weekend interview, Whitaker said his research for the role in the film had changed his perception of Amin, whose brutal rule over Uganda between 1971 and 1979 was punctuated by bizarre and often psychopathic behaviour, and the deaths of up to half a million people. "I'm not trying to defend Amin, the Amin I found was...

Put it there ... Putin greets Blair before his tirade RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin sparked uproar yesterday by saying Africans had a history of CANNIBALISM. He lashed out at the continent’s past after being challenged about his human rights’ record.In an astonishing outburst, Mr Putin said: “We all know that African countries used to have a tradition of eating their own adversaries.“We don’t have such a tradition or process or culture and I believe the comparison between Africa and Russia is not quite just.”Tony Blair, who had just finished talks with Mr Putin, was left squirming with embarrassment as...

A court in the southern Norwegian town of Kristiansand has sentenced a man to six years in protective custody after he expressed interest in eating a 13-year-old girl. The man, age 26, was charged with asking the 13-year-old whether he first could have sex with her and then kill her and eat her. He also allegedly misrepresented himself as a policeman over the Internet, and succeeded in coaxing a 14-year-old girl to send him naked photos of herself. All told, 11 young girls were the targets of the man's threats and frightening behaviour. The court described the earlier sex offender...

German cannibal Armin Meiwes is back in court where an appeal is being heard almost 15 months after he was imprisoned for eight and a half years. Prosecutors are pressing for him to be jailed for life, while his defence wants the sentence cut to five years. Meiwes was jailed for manslaughter in January 2004 for killing and eating a willing victim he met via the internet. The judge denied the prosecutors' call for a murder conviction, which would have meant a 15-year jail sentence. Both the prosecution and the defence appealed against the manslaughter verdict. His defence team say...

A mental patient who got a "thrill and feeling of power" from killing and eating his victims was free to carry out his crime thanks to a "manifest failure" in his treatment, the Old Bailey heard yesterday. Peter Bryan, a paranoid schizophrenic and self-confessed cannibal, was jailed for life for killing two people while under the supervision of mental health services following an earlier fatal attack. Peter Bryan Peter Bryan: killed hours after he was deemed safe The court heard he fooled his doctors by masking his illness under a "veneer of near normality" and that he killed his second...

A convicted killer with a desire to eat his victims today admitted killing two men - cooking the brains of one of them.Peter Bryan, 35, was labelled The Cannibal after police found him cooking human brains. Bryan pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to the manslaughters on the grounds of diminished responsibility of Brian Cherry, 43, and Richard Loudwell, 59. The prosecution accepted not guilty pleas to murder charges because of the weight of psychiatric evidence. Bryan was sent to a secure hospital in 1994 after admitting the unlawful killing of 20-year-old shop assistant Nisha Sheth who was beaten to...

A man alleged to have kidnapped a two-year-old girl before roasting her on a fire and eating her because he was starving has been arrested by police in India. The gruesome incident took place in a jungle hamlet in the Nellore district in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh about a week ago, a police officer said, and came to light after the 42-year-old man was later discovered gorging on a buffalo carcass. "He was caught and handed over to us by villagers who found it strange that he was eating such a large animal with his bare hands with...

A Mexican man killed his lover in a drunken, drugged fight then cooked the man's body in tomato and onion sauce and ate it over three days. Police found Gumaro de Dios Arias grilling human flesh for his breakfast, including part of a heart, when they raided a shack he lived in near the Caribbean beach resort of Playa del Carmen, a police chief said today. "He was preparing stews. There was a grill where he was cooking part of the heart and bits he had cut off the body. It was terrible, terrible," said local police chief Martin Estrada,...

Another Superman is dead. Not the Superman of my childhood, George Reeves, who was found shot dead by a German Luger in 1959. Although there was no note or other indication that Reeves had killed himself, the police ruled it a suicide. The actor, too identified with his TV role, had become depressed over his inability to find work. It was a sad end for an actor who 20 years earlier had made a tiny splash as one of the charming Tarleton twins courting Scarlet O’Hara. I was fourteen, and my friends and I thought it was funny. Superman killed...

Already the subject of a hit rock song and a film script, Germany's convicted cannibal is now destined for the small screen as the star of a television documentary, its producer said on Friday. Armin Meiwes, who was jailed in January for more than eight years for killing and eating the flesh of a willing victim, has signed over the media rights to his case to the Hamburg-based production firm Stampfwerk. Managing director Guenter Stampf said the documentary would "come to terms with an unusual criminal case". He added that a book deal was also in the works but would...

Because of the recent popularity and notoriety of Michael Moore’s latest flight into propaganda, Fahrenheit 911, a movie I watched this weekend packed an extra punch, on top of its many other visceral attacks on the senses. It’s not often that a European makes a movie which destroys (both literally AND figuratively) liberal documentarians, but that is exactly what the 1979 Italian movie Cannibal Holocaust does, in spades. Made for $100,000.00 in the late ‘70s by director Ruggero Deodato, CH is certainly not for everyone. Most FReepers should, in fact, take a pass. The film is reputed to be the...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Four members of a family have been arrested and charged with murder for allegedly killing and eating a relative during a wedding reception -- and serving his flesh to unwitting party guests, police have said. At the July 17 wedding of his daughter, Eladio Baule got angry with his cousin Benjie Ganay who tripped and accidentally touched the bride's bottom, said Senior Police Inspector Perla Bacuel, at Narra town in Palawan province, southwest of Manila. A few hours later, Baule, his son Gerald, another cousin Junnie Buyot and a nephew, Sabtuari Pique, allegedly confronted Ganay, then...

HELENA (AP) - A five-justice Montana Supreme Court panel plans to decide whether to overturn the convictions of Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, who was sentenced to 130 years in prison for sexually assaulting one boy and torturing another by suspending him from a kitchen ceiling.Justices won't hear oral arguments, but will assess written filings, Wednesday's court order said.