He called it a case of two mentally disturbed inhabitants of a 'dark underworld' meeting accidentally on the Internet and agreeing to use each other as a means of satisfying their own sexual fantasies. the murder was highly unpleasant for him,' said Judge Volker Mütze. 'This is not a classic case of cannibalism where someone is violently killed and eaten. GERMANY: German criminal law entered uncharted territory yesterday after a self-confessed cannibal was found guilty of manslaughter but escaped a murder conviction for killing and eating a man three years ago, writes Derek Scally in Kassel:Ī state court in Kassel said yesterday that Armin Meiwes (42), exhibited a 'serious psychological perversion', but that his only obvious motive for the killing was cannibalism, not explicitly a crime under German law.