A New York City police officer convicted of conspiring to kidnap, murder, cook and eat women has a new job in jail — he is now a popular cook.

A British nurse whose name emerged as part of an international investigation into cannibalism has been charged with sex offences and attempting to poison someone.

Cheerful written exchanges between a police officer and women from his past appeared in a sinister new light when an FBI agent described at the officer’s criminal trial how he talked on the internet about killing and eating the women.

The estranged wife of a New York City policeman told a court she found emails and other evidence on her husband’s computer showing he had discussed killing her and torturing and eating other women.

A New York policeman charged with plotting to kill and eat women hinted in an online chat that his wife might have been on the menu.