Policeman cannibal put wife on menu

A New York policeman charged with plotting to kill and eat women hinted in an online chat that his wife might have been on the menu.

Federal prosecutors said that Gilberto Valle engaged in a grisly internet chat with a man who said he was in India. They said Valle told the other man that his “girlfriend” and his wife were both 25 years old, 5 feet 7 inches and 10 stones.

According to prosecutors, the other man asked if the wife was vegetarian and Valle said yes. Prosecutors said the man told Valle her meat would be lower quality.

Valle, 28, is charged with planning to kidnap, rape, kill and eat women. His lawyers say he was merely fantasising and intended no violence.