Meiwes, wearing a dark suit and a black dress shirt and looking thinner than when he was first convicted, was led into the courtroom in handcuffs.
The men them met near Meiwes' home in Rotenburg in central Germany. He was given the more lenient sentence of manslaughter because Brandes had requested he be eaten. Meiwes, a computer expert and former army officer admitted to killing a Berlin man and fellow computer specialist Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, 42. The higher court ruled that the original trial had ignored that the video was made to satisfy the defendant's sexual desires.
The courts said the crime had most of the features of murder including gratuitous violence and prosecutors said it was murder because he killed to satisfy his own desire. German prosecutors are asking for life in prison for the German man who killed a man and ate him afterward, video taping the act about five years ago.Īrmin Meiwes, 44, was convicted in January 2004 of manslaughter and given an eight-and-a-half-year sentence for cutting up a man he met through the Internet three years before when he advertised for someone willing to be eaten.īut German's highest court ruled last spring that the sentence was too lenient and that the 'cannibal' face a second trial on murder charges.