![]() ![]() ![]() ‘‘I had my big kick and I don’t need to do it again,’’ he said. ‘‘Bernd came to me of his own free will to end his life,” Meiwes said in his closing statement in court on Monday. 3 in the central city of Kassel, Meiwes confessed in detail to killing Bernd Juergen Brandes, 43, in March 2001 at Meiwes’ home in the town of Rotenburg.īrandes traveled from Berlin in reply to an Internet advertisement seeking a young man for ‘‘slaughter and consumption.’’ Meiwes testified that Brandes wanted to be stabbed to death after drinking a bottle of cold medicine to lose consciousness. The defense argued that since the victim volunteered to be killed and eaten, the crime should be classified a mercy killing, which carries a five-year maximum penalty.īefore the verdict Meiwes looked calm, chatting with his attorney and occasionally grinning for cameras allowed inside the courtroom before the session began. Ad: Vacation? City Trip? Weekend Break? Book Skip-the-line tickets
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