Russian cannibal gets reduced sentence because "he was hungry" !

[Frax]

wow, lol.

Russian cannibal who ate mother has sentence reduced 'because he was hungry' - Telegraph

Russian cannibal who ate mother has sentence reduced 'because he was hungry'
A Russian cannibal who killed and ate parts of his own mother has had his prison sentence reduced by nine months after a court accepted he resorted to cannibalism out of hunger rather than preference.


By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
Published: 10:38AM GMT 11 Nov 2009

Sergei Gavrilov admitted he had used parts of his murdered mother's legs to make soup and pasta for weeks on end. But he argued he was driven to the desperate act because he had ran out of money and was starving.

"I did not like the flesh," he told investigators. "It was too fatty."

A court in southern Russia accepted his explanation and ruled that the unemployed 27 year-old had therefore not wantonly defiled his mother's own corpse. It did find him guilty of murder, however, and sentenced him to fourteen years and three months in prison, according to Russian news agency Interfax.

That is nine months less than the standard 15-year sentence for such a crime. Mr Gavrilov got off more lightly because of his confession and because the judge believed he had turned to cannibalism out of hunger rather than preference.

Mr Gavrilov said he had killed his 55 year-old mother Lyubov last January after she refused to hand over her pension. He wanted to spend the money on a drinking and gambling binge.

Angered by her refusal, he hit her on the head with a brick and strangled her with an electric cord before dumping her lifeless body on the balcony.

It was only two weeks later after he had spent all her money that he discovered that her body had frozen on the balcony and decided to begin slicing bits of flesh from her legs to keep his hunger pangs at bay.

[Tyen]

Makes sense to me.

[Shanter]

I mean she had it coming, what a bitch to deny her son a drinking and gambling binge.

[Bloodget]

Cool guy!

[Strifen]

Should have hooked up with the Peruvian Gangs could have gotten top dollars instead!

Peruvian gang 'killed peasant farmers for their fat' - Americas, World - The Independent

Each of their bodies then had its head, arms and legs cut off. Major organs were removed, and discarded, before the torso was suspended from hooks in the ceiling of the hut. Candles were placed beneath, so that melting fat would dribble into pots, pans and other collecting vessels.

"We have broken up a criminal organisation dedicated to trafficking bodily fluids and human fat," said local police commander Angel Toledo, on Thursday. The large containers of illicit fat were latter decanted into bottles for export, he added.

"Without a doubt [the gang] have committed various crimes like kidnapping and conspiring to commit criminal acts. [They] have spoken about how they committed crimes with the purpose of extracting their fat in rudimentary laboratories to later sell for the price of $15,000 (£9,000) per litre."

[Fadaar]

Find me Michael Moore, I have $100,000 to make.

[James]

I'd guess it would depend on how long he was starving.

[brekk]

Seems pretty reasonable. Cannibalism due to starvation is a whole different ball game from Cannibalism because you're fucked in the head.

Though he killed his mother over some money. So he is fucked in the head...

[jayrebb]

This fucking coward knew he was nothing in Russia, and that there were any random handful of men who wouldn't blink twice at putting his brain matter on the street if he tried his hand at local petty crime.

Perversion is the result of oppression. This guy defines "sub-criminal".

Whats awesome here is that the courts acknowledged his sub-criminal status (that would never happen in a Western country), and appropriated his sentence accordingly.

This is win more than you realize.