Cannibals sold pies made of victim’s remains to children

THREE cannibals accused of stuffing their victims’ flesh into pies they sold to schools and hospitals have been convicted of one of the gruesome murders.

The trio were found guilty by a court in Olinda, north-east Brazil, of luring homeless Jessica da Silva, 17, to their house on the promise of a job, slitting her throat and eating her after dismembering her body.

Jorge Beltrao Negromonte, 52, his wife Isabel Cristina Pires, 53, and his mistress Bruna Cristina da Silva, 28, feasted on Jessica’s remains the next day, after seasoning them with salt and cumin.

The court heard the dead woman’s one-year-old child, whom da Silva raised as her own until their arrest four years later, was given her mother’s flesh to eat.

The trio, who claimed to be part of a sect that wanted to reduce the world’s population, confessed to their horrendous crimes during the 40-hour trial.

Negromonte was sentenced to 23 years in jail and the two women to 20 years in prison each for the May 2008 crime.

At the opening of their trial, it was claimed that they sold pasties containing human meat they pretended was chicken to unsuspecting customers, including schoolchildren.

State prosecutor Eliane Gaia said: ‘We’ve tried the most terrible crimes but never a case of cannibalism.

‘We’ve never seen a case of a human eating the flesh of another human being.

‘And they did this with coldness and without any pity for their victim.’

The cannibal trio are yet to be tried for the February 2012 murder of a 31-year-old woman and the March 2012 murder of a 20 year-old woman.

A trial date has yet to be set.