Maneater: A 'sane pervert'

2004-01-23 12:13

Kassel, Germany - Self-confessed cannibal Armin Meiwes, 42, is perverted but sane, a psychiatrist told the trial on Friday.

Testifying in court in Kassel, Germany, Dr Georg Stolpmann said Meiwes suffered from a serious psychological abnormality, but he was responsible for his actions in the legal sense of sanity.

The psychiatrist's view concurred with that of a sexologist who had earlier testified at the trial. Their expert evidence is likely to mean that Meiwes will not be found insane and locked in a mental hospital, but can be judged under the regular criminal code.

Meiwes claims his victim, a Berlin engineer, requested to be castrated, killed and eaten. He is accused of murder for sexual gratification.

Cannibalism is not a crime in Germany. - Sapa-DPA

- SAPA