Cannibal Man Gets Life

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By Alistair MacDonald

 

LONDON (Reuters) - A self confessed cannibal who killed three people, dismembering one victim and eating part of his brain, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

 

Peter Bryan, 36, a paranoid schizophrenic, on Tuesday pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey court to two counts of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

 

The judge, describing the case as exceptional, told Bryan that in this case "life means the rest of your natural life."

 

Bryan had killed two men two months apart while under the care of mental health institutions in Britain. Both prosecution and defence lawyers criticised mental health authorities in whose care he had been placed since his first killing in 1993 of a 20 year old student.

 

Bryan was sentenced for the killing of Brian Cherry, 43, in February 2004 and Richard Laudwell, 60, slain two months later at Broadmoor prison where he was in custody for the first attack.

 

When police arrived at Cherry's East London flat they found his corpse dismembered with part of his brain in a frying pan.

 

"I would have done someone else if you hadn't come along," Bryan told officers. "I wanted their souls."

 

Bryan later told psychologists that cannibalism was normal, a voodoo ritual that was "like eating the forbidden fruit."

 

Bryan, whose family has a history of mental illness, killed again when remanded in Broadmoor, a high security prison outside London, the court heard.

 

Laudwell, who Bryan described to psychiatrists as "the bottom of the food chain, old and haggard," died 10 days later in hospital.

 

Bryan's first victim Nisha Sheth was killed in March 1993, after which he was placed in care under the Mental Health Act.

 

Prosecution counsel Aftab Jafferjee said the British health authorities had "manifestly failed to protect the public."

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Of all the food he can choose from in the world, he goes after his fellow human beings. Just when you think the world couldn't get more messed up, you read something like this.

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• Man 'nearly decapitated'

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  London - A London man was nearly decapitated in the street early on Monday by an axe-wielding attacker, witnesses to the crime told British media.

   

  Police would not confirm that the man had nearly been beheaded, but said the victim was a white man in his 60s who was found dead "with severe head injuries".

   

  They said they were called to the scene of a "serious assault" under way in northwest London at 09:40 and that a man in his 30s had been arrested over the crime.

   

  However, a man working on a scaffold in the elite northwest London neighbourhood told the Evening Standard newspaper he watched the axeman run toward his victim with a weapon held high in the air and launch an unrelenting series of blows.

   

  "The man with the axe ran at his victim and just laid into him. He brought it down on his head and floored him," the witness, who declined to be named, said.

   

  Within seconds the victim was on the ground, and "there was blood pouring from his head and spilling onto the pavement. It was horrific," he said.

   

  After the hail of blows, the attacker put his axe down and stood next to the victim until police arrived, the man on the scaffold said.

   

  He said the men seemed to know each other because they had exchanged words before the attack.

   

  Another bystander, Avelinas Rodrigues, told the Evening Standard the sound of the axe blows was like "the sound of a child being hit by a car".

   

  The murderer "hacked his victim's head, cutting it as if it was a block of wood for a fire", she said.

   

  She and another woman, said they pleaded with the attacker to stop but were ignored.

   

  Police have sealed off Eton Avenue, the scene of the attack in the posh Belsize Park neighbourhood, and have launched a murder inquiry.

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London is the place to be and about.

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And I thought only America was the factory of serial killers.