Cannibal seeks new victim on Internet

Armin Meiwes (L), a 42-year-old computer technician and self-confessed cannibal, waits with his lawyer Harald Ermel for the start of his trial yesterday at a court in the central city of Kassel, Germany. Meiwes is accused of murdering a man who was apparently willing to be killed, carved up and eaten in front of a running video camera. Monday's session continues with the screening of the video showing the defendant's killing and partial consumption of his victim. PHOTO: AFP

Months after killing, dissecting and eating a man he met via the Internet, Armin Meiwes wrote in an e-mail to a friend: "I hope I will soon find another victim, the flesh has almost all gone."

Meiwes, a 42-year-old computer technician, told a court in Kassel, central Germany, that his first victim, whom he claims volunteered to be killed, had "disappointed me in many ways".

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The man, a 43-year-old Berlin engineer named Bernd-Juergen Brandes, had lied about his age, claiming in e-mails to be 36, and did not want to try to get to know Meiwes better before his planned death, the accused said.