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An enraged father who disapproved of his daughter's older boyfriend went to his home and castrated him with a bread knife. Helmut Seifert, 47, an ethnic German originally from Russia, was enraged when he heard his 17-year-old daughter was having a relationship with Phillip Genscher, 57. He went to police in the town of Bielefeld where he lives but officers said they were powerless to intervene. "The man then recruited two work colleagues at his factory and then went to the house of the victim," said police. "The man was forced to remove his trousers and, fully conscious, he was...

A self-confessed cannibal went on trial in Germany accused of murdering a victim who was apparently willing to be killed, carved up and eaten in front of a running video camera. Armin Meiwes, a 42-year-old computer technician, was pictured laughing and chatting easily to his lawyer moments before the case opened in the central city of Kassel. It is the first time Meiwes, dressed smartly in a jacket and tie, has been shown in public since he was arrested a year ago. The macabre case is unprecedented in German legal history, not only because it concerns cannibalism -- which Meiwes...