EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Police HO X80001īrandes traveled from Berlin in reply to an Internet advertisement seeking a young man for "slaughter and consumption." Meiwes testified that Brandes wanted to be stabbed to death after drinking a bottle of cold medicine to lose consciousness.
Meiwes' trial began on Decemin a case of sexually inspired cannibalism so perplexing it could make legal history. An undated police handout photo shows 42-year-old Berlin citizen Bernd-Juergen B, who was murdered in the spring 2000, by Armin Meiwes, the German computer expert who gained worldwide notoriety by killing and eating his willing victim. 3 in the central city of Kassel, Meiwes confessed in detail to the March 2001 killing of 43-year-old Bernd Juergen Brandes at Meiwes' home in the nearby town of Rotenburg. His defense argued that since the victim had volunteered to be killed and eaten, the crime should be classified a mercy killing, which carries a five-year maximum penalty.īefore the verdict Meiwes looked calm, chatting with his attorney and occasionally grinning for cameras allowed inside the courtroom before the session began. Brandes had insisted that Meiwes attempt to bite his penis off. Prosecutors called Meiwes a "human butcher" who acted simply to "satisfy a sexual impulse" and had sought a life sentence for murder. The two made a videotape when they met on 9 March 2001 in Meiwes’s home in the small town of Rotenburg, showcasing Meiwes amputating Brandes’s penis and the two men attempting to eat the penis together before Brandes’s ultimate demise.
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