A German court has sentenced a former teacher to life in prison for killing and mutilating a man he met on an online dating site.
The judge in Berlin said Staffan R. The 42-year-old killed the electrical engineer “to satisfy his cravings for cannibalism”.
The former teacher was arrested in November 2020 when some of the victim’s bones were found in a public park north of Berlin.
It is customary under German privacy law not to reveal family surnames in police investigations.
The mother of the victim, aged 43, had reported his disappearance weeks before his body was found.
The two men agreed on a date to have sex in Staffan R.’s apartment. In the Banquo neighborhood where the killer was a mathematics teacher at a private school.
The killer had previously visited chat rooms on the Internet on the topic of cannibalism. Investigators said that his victim died hours following meeting him, and they found a bone-cutting saw and a butcher’s knife in his apartment.
The remains of the victim were found in a forest in the northern suburbs of Berlin
At the trial, Staffan said he found the man dead in his apartment, the morning following they had sex, and decided to dispose of his body out of fear.
He used a rented car to disperse the limbs of the corpse to a number of locations north of the neighborhood, and only the genitals were missing from it.
Defense lawyers said “sexual fantasies are not a crime” and demanded his acquittal, declaring that the victim may have died from the effects of the drug mixture he had taken.
But the prosecution said that the crime was full of evidence, which is that the victim was lured, and the killer acted in order to satisfy his sexual fantasies, and to be able to commit a crime.
This case reminds of another man famous in Germany for eating human flesh, Armin Meiwes, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2006.
Mavis filmed the murder, which prosecutors said revealed that he killed his 43-year-old male victim for sexual pleasure.
But the difference is that the victim of the Maiviscan himself tends to eat human flesh.
