Dead man ‘tasted like lamb’

A MEXICAN accused of killing, cooking and eating his companion admitted committing the crime and said the victim “tasted like lamb.”

“If they’d let me, I would have eaten it all,” said Gumaro de Dios Arias, following a court appearance in Playa de Carmen, near Cancun.

He said he killed the victim, identified only as El Guacho, because the man had failed to buy Arias drugs with money he had given him for that purpose.

Afterward, Arias apparently tried to make a vegetable stew with portions of the body, but didn’t like it, so instead he began to roast sections of the corpse, police said.

“I ate about 2.5 kilograms,” Arias said. “It tasted very good.”

The judge in the case has several days to decide whether to send Arias over for trial for murder.