ARMIN MEIWES VIDEO KILLING TRIAL

After the funeral, he constructed a shrine to her, complete with a plastic manikin that he would lie down on a pillow every night. The death of his mother devastated Meiwes.

His mother died in 1999, leaving the now adult Meiwes alone in the large family mansion, his fantasies intensified. At some point, between the ages eight and twelve, Armin developed the desire to have someone who 'was a part of him.' He fantasised about eating his friends, and possibly even Franky. This desire for a sibling was the catalyst for his first cannibalistic thoughts. He had blond hair and listened to Armin, something his mother never did. It was because of this sheltered, near fatherless childhood, that the young Armin created Franky.ДЇranky was Armin's imaginary younger brother. On the few occasions that he went out with girls his mother insisted on accompanying him, and when he performed his military service in the 1980s, she even invited herself out with the troops. She humiliated the young Armin by admonishing him loudly in public and insisting on accompanying him everywhere. His father, a rather stern man, tended to ignore him and his mother became the dominant person in his life. Warning: Some of the details to follow are graphic and violent, some readers may find them disturbing.Д«orn near the German town of Kassal in 1961, Armin Meiwes had a very lonely childhood. The comparatively light sentence drew public outcry He intended to spend his time in jail writing his memoirs. He was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.

ARMIN MEIWES VIDEO KILLING TRIAL

After a gruesome but revealing trial he was found guilty of manslaughter because his victim had consented to the killing. By the time detectives arrived in December 2002 he had eaten 'about 20kgs' of his victim.Described as polite and genial by those who knew him, Armin Meiwes, a computer technician, is the self confessed cannibal who gripped the media in Germany and indeed the world in late 2003 when he was arrested on a charge of the murder of Bernd-Juergen Brandes. The next day Meiwes cut off parts of Brandes, which he put in his freezer. Meiwes later stabbed his unconscious victim to death. He cut off Brandes' penis, which both men then tried - and failed - to eat. In March 2001 Meiwes took Brandes back to his farmhouse in Rotenburg, Germany. Meiwes met Brandes on the internet after he replied to Meiwes' advert seeking someone to 'slaughter and eat'. His original two-month trial gripped Germany and the world with its lurid detail. Under German law Meiwes will now have to serve a mandatory 15-year sentence - with no parole before 2016. 'We will now consider whether we appeal.' But yes, he is shocked by it,' Miewes' lawyer Harald Emerl told N24 television yesterday. They also said he was guilty not of murder but of 'killing on demand' since his victim had agreed to be eaten. Miewes' lawyers had argued that their client - who befriended a 43-year-old computer engineer Bernd JГјrgen Brandes, later cooking him in garlic and olive oil - was unlikely to devour anyone else. The retrial, which began in January, was held after a federal appeals court threw out his manslaughter conviction to allow prosecutors to seek a tougher sentence.

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