A former teacher who killed, dismembered and ate members of a 43-year-old man he had met online on Friday was sentenced to life in prison.
Stefan R., 42, was found guilty of murder and insulting the dead. Due to the gravity of the offense, the decision of the Berlin court is accompanied by a recommendation that makes it almost impossible to release him on parole.
Court President Matthias Sertz said Stephen R. had committed the crime “to carry out his cannibalistic fantasy” and described him as “inhuman”. In the thirty years of his career, the judge said that “he has not seen anything like this”.
The accused remained silent and expressionless during the reading of the decision.
On September 6, 2020, the victim agreed to meet with the accused, through an erotic dating platform. He took a taxi to his apartment in Berlin-Pankov, in the northern suburbs of the German capital. There the perpetrator drugged and strangled him, and then ate some of his limbs.
The investigation into the disappearance of the victim was frozen, until in November of the same year human remains were found in a park and it was found that they belonged to the missing person. Analyzing his mobile phone, the police then managed to locate the taxi driver who was transporting him that night.
Traces of blood, other parts of the victim’s body and many tools, such as a saw, were found in the apartment.
The case is reminiscent of that of Detlef Ginzel, a former police chief convicted of the murder and dismemberment of a man he met online at the victim’s request. Another case that shocked Germany in the early 2000s was that of Armin Maives, the so-called “Rothenburg cannibal”, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2006 for murder and cannibalism.
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