Lawyers for self-confessed cannibal appeal against conviction

Lawyers for a German man who admitted killing and eating an acquaintance he met on the internet today said they have filed an appeal in federal court against their client’s murder conviction.

Harald Ermel, a lawyer for Armin Meiwes, a 44-year-old computer technician who was also convicted of disturbing the peace of the dead, said the appeal was filed on Tuesday with the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe.

That same judicial body last year overturned a lower court’s manslaughter conviction and ordered a retrial.

On May 9, a Frankfurt state court sentenced Meiwes to life in prison, with Judge Klaus Drescher described the killing as “a particularly perverse murder.”