A Briton living in the United States who plotted to kidnap, rape, kill and eat children has been jailed for nearly 27 years.

A British-born man who planned to kill children in a torture dungeon beneath his U.S. home has been sentenced to 27 years in prison.

Federal prosecutors will ask for a 27-year prison sentence for a Massachusetts man who authorities say had a dungeon in his basement and chatted online with other men about their mutual desire to abduct, kill and eat children.