The case revealed a world of bizarre sexual urges that were discussed in online “chat-rooms”.Ī higher court said the crime had most of the features of murder including gratuitous violence and ordered the retrial which starts Thursday in the German city of Frankfurt. Judges upheld his claim that the movie - titled "Rohtenburg," in an echo of his hometown's name - detailed events in his private life and infringed his personal rights.HAMBURG – Prosecutors will be seeking life imprisonment this week for the self-confessed German cannibal who killed a man and ate his body parts in a grisly crime recorded on video nearly five years ago.Īrmin Meiwes, 44, is already serving an eight-and-a-half-year prison term for manslaughter, but prosecutors say his conviction should be upgraded to murder. Meiwes has scored one legal victory, securing a ban by another court on the screening of a film that was inspired by his case.
In early 2004, a court in the city of Kassel convicted Meiwes of manslaughter and sentenced him to 8½ years in prison, but prosecutors appealed the verdict.įederal judges overturned the original ruling last year and ordered a retrial, arguing the lower court, in rejecting murder charges, failed to give sufficient consideration to the sexual motive behind the killing. Police tracked down and arrested Meiwes in December 2002 after a student in Austria alerted them to a message Meiwes had posted on the Internet seeking a man willing to be killed and eaten. He has also said he ate more after the killing. "I wanted to eat him - I didn't want to kill him," he told the court.īefore Brandes was killed, the two attempted to eat parts of the man's body together, Meiwes said. Still, the defendant claimed he had hesitated before going through with the act.
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