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The trial judge said Meiwes' thrill was in the carving and consumption, not the slaying.

Losing consciousness, Brandes was killed by Meiwes, who stabbed him and carved his body like an animal's. The victim, 43-year-old Jürgen Brandes, a computer specialist, traveled from Berlin to Meiwes' home near the city of Kassel in 2001 in reply to an Internet advertisement seeking a young man for 'slaughter and consumption.'Īfter sex at Brandes' request, they cut off his engorged penis which they fried and tried to eat. The court is following a prosecution plea to categorize the gory crime as 'murder,' which would then get the life sentence.Īt the time of his conviction last year, Meiwes had argued that the victim volunteered to be killed and eaten, so the case should be classified a mercy killing, which carries a maximum five-year penalty.

The court said that the lower court in Kassel last year had only deemed the unprecedented crime as 'manslaughter.' It added that it could not be ruled out that Meiwes had killed to "satisfy a sexual impulse." The lower court had found that because the act had satisfied the admittedly deranged desires of both the perpetrator and victim, it did not qualify as murder.īut on Friday, the BGH, Germany's highest criminal court overturned the verdict. The Federal Constitutional Court (BGH) in Karlsruhe on Friday ordered a retrial for the 43-year-old Meiwes, who was convicted in January 2004 of killing and eating Jürgen Brandes.Ī trial judge sentenced Meiwes to eight and a half years in prison last year after he confessed to the crimes. Armin Meiwes, the so-called "cannibal of Rotenburg" who last year horrified and fascinated the world by admitting to slaughtering and consuming another man, could spend the rest of his life behind bars after all.