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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (12385)	1/26/2004 6:55:58 PM
From: AugustWest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

(COMTEX) Prosecutors seek life in prison for confessed German cannibal ( The Canadian ress ) KASSEL, Germany, Jan 26, 2004 (The Canadian Press via COMTEX) -- A German who confessed to killing, dismembering and eating another man who allegedly agreed to the arrangement over the Internet should spend the rest of his life in prison for murder, prosecutors said Monday. In closing arguments, prosecutor Marcus Koehler said Armin Meiwes, 42, acted simply to "satisfy a sexual impulse" and filmed himself dismembering the victim before he ate him so he could "admire himself as a human butcher." Meiwes considered eating his victim as a kind of twisted "communion," Koehler said. Defence lawyer Harald Ermel argued that the slaying was a "homicide on demand" - a form of mercy killing - because the victim gave his consent to be killed and eaten. That crime carries a maximum five-year prison sentence. When his trial opened Dec. 3 at the state court in the central city of Kassel, Meiwes confessed in detail to the March 2001 killing of 43-year-old Bernd Juergen Brandes at his home in the nearby town of Rotenburg. Brandes travelled from Berlin in reply to an Internet advertisement seeking a young man for "slaughter and consumption." Meiwes testified that Brandes wanted to be stabbed to death after drinking a bottle of cold medicine to lose consciousness. "Bernd came to me of his own free will to end his life," Meiwes said in a closing statement Monday. "For him, it was a nice death." Still, he said he regretted the killing. "I had my big kick and I don't need to do it again," he said. "I regret it all very much, but I can't undo it." A grisly video he made of the act was shown to the court in a closed session during the trial. A doctor testified that Brandes died from loss of blood and that the medication, along with a half-bottle of liquor and 20 sleeping pills he took beforehand, could not have lessened his pain. Several experts have testified that Meiwes was fit to stand trial and was not mentally ill. Police tracked down and arrested Meiwes in December 2002 after a student in Austria alerted them to a message Meiwes had posted on the Internet. "If I hadn't been so stupid as to keep looking on the Internet, I would have taken my secret to the grave," Meiwes said Monday. A verdict is expected Friday. FRANK LETH The online source for news sports entertainment finance and business news in Ca ada Copyright (C) 2004 The Canadian Press (CP), All rights reserved -0- KEYWORD: KASSEL, Germany SUBJECT CODE: world * end of story *