![]() Later that evening Meiwes cut off Brandes' penis and both men tried - and failed - to eat it. Meiwes then showed Brandes the "slaughter room" he had constructed upstairs. He met Meiwes and went to the isolated farmhouse where he lived alone. In March 2001 Brandes took the day off work, wiped all evidence of his masochistic fantasies from his computer and travelled to Rotenburg by train. In an email read to the court yesterday Brandes told the cannibal: "I hope you are serious because I really want it. It was, the judge said, "to be the final act, the high point of his life". "The victim offered up his body because he wanted to get the kick of his life," the judge told the court in Kassel, as Meiwes sitting next to his lawyer listened avidly. He got a reply, from Bernd Brandes, an outwardly successful manager with Siemens in Berlin with secret masochistic fantasies. These feelings got stronger after the death of his "domineering" mother in 1999 and eventually led him to place an advert on the internet seeking someone to "slaughter and eat", the court heard. ARMIN MEIWES VIDEO CANNIBAL SERIESHe had also fantasised about eating Sandy, the blond boy hero of the Sixties TV series Flipper. ![]() Justifying his verdict, Judge Mütze yesterday described how 42-year-old Meiwes had experienced cannibal feelings as a young boy, after his father and two brothers walked out on the family home. There was no reason why he should not eventually return home to the timbered farmhouse in Rotenburg, central Germany, where he cut up and refrigerated bits of Brandes, burying his skull in the garden, the lawyer said. ARMIN MEIWES VIDEO CANNIBAL FREEWith good behaviour, Meiwes was likely to be free in four and a half years, Mr Ermel pointed out. The cannibal's lawyer, Harald Ermel, said his client was "satisfied" with the result, and was now considering numerous offers from film companies and publishers. "We believe this was murder," prosecutor Andreas Köhler said. German prosecutors yesterday said they were considering whether to appeal against the verdict. A door has been opened into a world which we immediately want to shut, a grey zone where people gather on the internet to live out their fantasies." "There were no base motives." He added: "These were two psychologically sick people who found each other. The killing was very unpleasant for Meiwes," the judge said. ![]() "The famous lust for murder was not there. But Judge Volker Mütze said he accepted the cannibal's argument that the man he met through the internet and later fried in garlic - 43-year-old computer engineer Bernd Jürgen Brandes - had wanted to die. The prosecution had demanded a 15-year-term. ![]()
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