![]() Meiwes’ video of the killing, which made for chilling viewing inside the courtroom, has convinced prosecutors that Bernd-Jürgen B.’s death was voluntary. "There’s absolutely no way back for me, only forwards, through your teeth," one read. During the trial Meiwes’ lawyer cited emails in which the victim insisted on being killed and eaten. The case had been complicated by the fact that the victim had explicitly expressed the wish to die. His victim, identified in the case only as Bernd-Jürgen B., volunteered to be killed after answering an Internet ad placed by 42-year-old Meiwes seeking "young men for real slaughter and consumption." The defense lawyer, Harald Ermel had argued on Thursday that his client, known as the "cannibal of Rotenburg", should get off lightly because his victim had been willing to die and be eaten.Įrmel had said that the cannibal could only be prosecuted on a charge of assisted suicide, which would carry a maximum prison term of five years. State prosecutors, who had been pushing for a life sentence on a charge of murder motivated by sexual urges, failed to make their case. He will spend eight years and six months in prison. Armin Meiwes, accused of killing a 43-year-old computer specialist from Berlin, eating his genitalia, and then freezing the rest of his body to consume in later repasts, was convicted of manslaughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() The trial that has riveted Germany and the rest of the world for the past two months reached its culmination in a Kassel courtroom on Friday. ![]()
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