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Posted on 01/08/2004 5:09:39 AM PST by tessalu
A SELF-confessed German cannibal needed an intensive "kick" to stimulate his emotions and found it in eating human flesh, a psychiatrist testified Monday at his trial for murder.
The expert, Heinrich Wilmer, told the court Armin Meiwes had a personality disorder, probably influenced by his father abandoning his family when he was still young, but was otherwise physically and mentally sound.
Nevertheless, he was immature and showed little feeling for others, and his reaction to his murder trial and the intense media coverage was "like a child excited by Father Christmas," Wilmer said.
The psychiatrist said Meiwes was an emotionless figure who only managed to develop "loose" relationships with other people and needed a kick to stimulate his feelings.
The 42-year-old computer technician has admitted killing and partly eating another man, Bernd-Juergen Brandes, who he claims was a willing victim.
They met after Meiwes placed an advertisement on the Internet for somebody willing to be killed, carved up and consumed.
Meiwes placed his first adverts out of a mixture "of farce and madness" but soon became deadly serious, Wilmer told the court in Kassel, central Germany.
The motive was less sexual than the fulfilment of a long-running "dream" to have someone who would never leave him, a desire no doubt shaped by the early disappearance of his father.
Meiwes denies murder, insisting Brandes, 43, consented to his own death on March 10, 2001 and later consumption, all filmed on home-made video.
His lawyers say he is guilty at worst of "killing on demand," punishable by up to five years in prison.
Prosecutors are pressing for a verdict of guilty of murder which carries a life sentence. Cannibalism itself is not a crime in Germany.
The court heard earlier Monday from a former girlfriend of Meiwes, although her evidence was taken in private after the press and public were excluded.
Meiwes' lawyer, Harald Ermel, told reporters on the sidelines of the trial that his client was now involved in a new relationship.
A verdict is due as early as next month.
Being an "expert" witness is such a racket.... he probably charged $15,000 for this insight..
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So if you happen to find a fresh corpse in Germany, you can convert it into 42 gallons of goulash, dispensed into individual sandwich-sized baggies, and the neighbors will pronounce it "uniformly delicious."
--Boris
Well, that is carrying road kill cuisine to a different level, but who ever accused the Germans of good taste? Open coffin funerals might be a bad idea, and cremation would be an absolute waste. (Note to self: avoid plump German morgue workers.)
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