Former policeman jailed for killing willing participant he met on 'cannibalism fetish' website
German man gets eight years for mutilating willing participant he met online in 2013
A court sentenced a German former police officer to eight years and six months in jail for killing a willing victim he met on a website for cannibalism fetishists.
In the macabre case which captured international headlines, presiding Judge Birgit Wiegand said the defendant, Detlev Guenzel, was guilty of "murder motivated by sexual lust and disturbing the peace of the dead".
The defendant, wearing a bright pink dress shirt and cargo trousers, sat impassively with his arms folded as the verdict was read out to the packed courtroom in the eastern city of Dresden.
Guenzel, 57, went on trial in August over the killing in November 2013 of Polish-born Wojciech Stempniewicz, a business consultant, at the defendant's home, a bed-and-breakfast inn in a mountain town near the Czech border.
The court found that Guenzel had cut the body into small pieces in a slaughter chamber he built in his cellar and buried them in his garden. But there was no evidence that he ate any part of his victim.
State attorneys had sought 10-and-a-half years in prison for the defendant, a trim, soft-spoken father of three adult children whom neighbours described as friendly, generous and unfailingly polite.