German cannibal in court to face retrial over killing
Armin Meiwes, a computer repairman who cut up and consumed a man he had met via the internet, was first sentenced in January 2004 to eight-and- a-half years for manslaughter, but the Supreme Court ruled last April that the verdict was too lenient and ordered a retrial.
Gory details of the crime have transfixed the public in Germany and beyond, while legal experts have puzzled over when a killing can be called murder if the victim wanted to die.
