COCK-EATING CANNIBAL IS OUT OF JAIL

A ‘friendly and polite’ cannibal who put out an advert for ‘a man to slaughter’ in a gay magazine before murdering and eating him has been going for ‘walks around town’.

Former computer technician Armin Meiwes, 58, was given ‘sunglasses and a cap’ to hide his identity and then driven for walks.

“Two officers accompany him. We always drive to another state for security reasons. There he can walk around town,” an investigator said.

In March 2001, Meiwes stabbed Bernd Brandes, 43, in the heart after amputating his penis and frying it in a pan with ‘salt, pepper garlic and nutmeg’.

Chopped

The pair met up at Meiwes’s Rotenburg farmhouse in Germany’s western state of Hesse.

In a pre-prepared killing room, both men tried to eat part of Mr Brandes, who had taken 20 sleeping pills to numb the pain.

When Mr Brandes was dead, he was chopped to pieces on a butcher’s block and kept in a freezer as Meiwes gradually ate meal-sized portions over a period of months.

Meiwes was convicted in 2006 for murder and disturbance of the peace and jailed for life, overturning a 2004 manslaughter conviction and a lesser sentence of eight-and-a-half years.

There had been a legal argument over whether killing a willing victim counted as murder.

Now Meiwes has been described as a ‘friendly, outgoing, polite’ inmate who reads, helps other prisoners with the typewriter, goes to church services and works in the laundry.

The Kassel regional court is considering an application for parole.