German cannibal jailed for eating willing victim

A GERMAN who confessed to killing, dismembering and eating another man who allegedly agreed to the arrangement was yesterday convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison.

Armin Meiwes, a 42-year-old computer expert, had no “base motives” in the crime, a state court ruled, sparing him a murder conviction.

Prosecutors had sought a life sentence, calling Meiwes a “human butcher” who acted simply to “satisfy a sexual impulse.”