Chinese cannibal gets 30-month jail sentence

A Chinese man has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for digging up a woman’s corpse and eating her ears, nose and breasts, the government has said.

Gui Jiachun was convicted of defiling a corpse by a court in Shitai County in the eastern province of Anhui, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. It said the offence was committed on February 11 but didn’t give the date of the ruling.

The court ruled Gui should be imprisoned instead of being detained in hospital for mental illness because he was capable of controlling his actions, Xinhua said.

Gui took an axe and a razor to the cemetery the same day that a fellow villager surnamed Lieu was buried after dying from an illness.

He exhumed the woman, cut off the body parts, took them home and cooked and ate them, Xinhua said.