A secondary college trainer sentenced to life in jail for murdering and dismembering a person he met on-line did so “to reside out his cannibalism fantasies”, a choose has stated.
The person, recognized solely as Stefan R, killed a 43-year-old mechanic on 5 September 2020, earlier than allegedly chopping up his sufferer’s physique and spreading elements of it throughout completely different places in Berlin ’s Pankow district.
Police spent weeks on the lookout for the mechanic, whose mom reported him lacking, earlier than a canine walker ultimately discovered his femur in a forest within the German capital that November. Extra bones had been reportedly discovered two weeks later at a park.
The 42-year-old maths and science trainer was sentenced to life in jail this week, after Berlin state court docket convicted him of homicide and disturbing the peace of the useless.
“What you probably did was inhuman,” presiding choose Matthias Schertz was reported as saying by native media.
The prosecution advised the court docket that the trainer spoke to folks on internet boards about cannibalism within the months main as much as the killing, Berliner Zeitung reported.
Based on investigators, he and his sufferer met on a courting web site and agreed to satisfy for intercourse on the trainer’s residence. Stefan R is alleged to have sedated the person with a drug and lower his throat, earlier than severing his genitals with the intention to eat them, Der Spiegel reported.
After elements of the sufferer’s physique had been found, police investigations – together with evaluation of his cell phone information – led officers to the trainer’s flat, the place they discovered blood, physique elements and suspicious instruments, in keeping with the paper.
There was no indication the trainer’s sufferer agreed to be killed, the court docket heard.
The court docket discovered that the defendant – who had disputed the costs – bears “significantly grave” accountability, which means that he won’t be entitled to the automated parole after 15 years that’s customary in Germany.
The case is just not the primary in Germany involving alleged cannibalism or fantasies of it.
Stefan R is reported to have recognized himself on a courting web site as “MasterButcher79”, echoing the nickname given to notorious German cannibal Armin Meiwes, who’s serving a life sentence for killing and consuming a 43-year-old Berlin engineer he met on the web in 2001.
Along with the case of Meiwes, who was prosecuted in 2006, a German police officer was convicted of homicide in 2015 for killing a person he met in an web chat discussion board dedicated to cannibalism. Whereas prosecutors stated the sufferer had fantasised about being eaten, there was no proof the suspect really did so.
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