On 3 December, the trial of Armin Meiwes began in Kassel, Germany. Bernd Jurgen Armando Brandes had responded to Meiwes’ advert for a voluntary victim on a cannibalism forum, and was killed and eaten when the pair met in March 2001, with Meiwes consuming around 20kg of Brandes’ flesh in the months that followed. Although Meiwes’ involvement was indisputable – the killing had been filmed and body parts were found in his home – the trial was complicated by Germany’s lack of laws on cannibalism and the victim’s consent. In January 2004 Meiwes was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison. Meiwes was retried and convicted of murder in 2006, resulting in a life sentence.
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