The defense showed a videotape of the March 2001 incident, in which the victim made no attempt to escape and was a willing participant.
Prosecutors pushed for a murder conviction in Meiwes' trial, but defense attorneys said the lesser charge would be more appropriate, claiming the victim's death was more like euthanasia than murder. The sentence was handed down in January 2004. (CNN) - A self-confessed cannibal convicted of killing and eating a man after advertising for a willing victim on the Internet will face a new trial after a German appeals court ruled his conviction on manslaughter charges was too lenient.Īrmin Meiwes, a former computer technician from Rotenburg-an-der-fuld in central Germany, was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for killing another computer technician, a 43-year-old man identified only as Bernd Juergen B.
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