A British NHS nurse dubbed “the Canterbury Cannibal”, who was convicted of sexual grooming after plotting to behead and eat a girl, has been jailed for nine years.

A male NHS nurse with a cannibalism fetish has been found guilty of trying to meet a 14-year-old girl after sexually grooming her and promising to behead and eat her.

A nurse who allegedly arranged to meet a 14-year-old girl he planned to behead with an axe and eat started having fantasies about cannibalism at the age of six, a court has heard.