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By IAN HEPBURN
A CANNIBAL has been caught by cops as he cooked his victim?s brain in a pan on the hob.
Horrified officers found the dismembered body of the dead man after they were called to a flat in East London.
Blood was splattered on the walls and floor ? and the maniac was frying the brain in the kitchen.
The sickening discovery came after neighbours made frantic 999 calls about a ?terrible attack?.
The body, believed to be that of the 45-year-old bachelor tenant of the flat, had suffered multiple injuries including dismemberment.
One police officer leaving the scene on Tuesday evening was reported to have told a neighbour: ?It?s horrible. It?s terrible in there.?
A man was arrested at the flat in Walthamstow, East London.
Two women ? aged 29 and 19 ? were held in nearby Chingford but were both later freed.
Last night it was revealed that the murder suspect had been released hours earlier from a mental home. The victim, named by neighbours as Brian Cherry, is also believed to have received psychiatric treatment.
One neighbour said: ?His mother died a few weeks ago. Brian didn?t work. He lived on his own.?
A number of weapons, believed to include knives, were seized at the scene and sent to forensic labs for examination.
A senior police source said: ?One real possibility is that the body was being cut up and prepared for a meal.
?The brain was being fried in a pan on the hob when officers raided the flat. There are aspects of the Mental Health Act which are being addressed. Cannibalism is a motive that cannot be overlooked at this time.?
Blood chilling ... screen cannibal Lecter fried brain in movie
Picture: REUTERS
The crime has chilling echoes of the Hollywood movie Hannibal in which cannibal Hannibal Lecter, left, played by Anthony Hopkins, fried his victim?s brain.
It also comes after computer technician Armin Meiwes, 42, was jailed for 8½ years after he ate a man he befriended over the internet in Germany.
A 34-year-old man appeared in court today charged with murdering Brian Cherry, of Walthamstow, and was remanded in custody until February 26.
Peter Bryan, whose address was given as Newham General Hospital in east London, spoke only to confirm his name and address during the brief hearing at Waltham Forest Magistrates Court. No bail application was made.
By IAN HEPBURN
A CANNIBAL has been caught by cops as he cooked his victim?s brain in a pan on the hob.
Horrified officers found the dismembered body of the dead man after they were called to a flat in East London.
Blood was splattered on the walls and floor ? and the maniac was frying the brain in the kitchen.
The sickening discovery came after neighbours made frantic 999 calls about a ?terrible attack?.
The body, believed to be that of the 45-year-old bachelor tenant of the flat, had suffered multiple injuries including dismemberment.
One police officer leaving the scene on Tuesday evening was reported to have told a neighbour: ?It?s horrible. It?s terrible in there.?
A man was arrested at the flat in Walthamstow, East London.
Two women ? aged 29 and 19 ? were held in nearby Chingford but were both later freed.
Last night it was revealed that the murder suspect had been released hours earlier from a mental home. The victim, named by neighbours as Brian Cherry, is also believed to have received psychiatric treatment.
One neighbour said: ?His mother died a few weeks ago. Brian didn?t work. He lived on his own.?
A number of weapons, believed to include knives, were seized at the scene and sent to forensic labs for examination.
A senior police source said: ?One real possibility is that the body was being cut up and prepared for a meal.
?The brain was being fried in a pan on the hob when officers raided the flat. There are aspects of the Mental Health Act which are being addressed. Cannibalism is a motive that cannot be overlooked at this time.?
Blood chilling ... screen cannibal Lecter fried brain in movie
Picture: REUTERS
The crime has chilling echoes of the Hollywood movie Hannibal in which cannibal Hannibal Lecter, left, played by Anthony Hopkins, fried his victim?s brain.
It also comes after computer technician Armin Meiwes, 42, was jailed for 8½ years after he ate a man he befriended over the internet in Germany.
A 34-year-old man appeared in court today charged with murdering Brian Cherry, of Walthamstow, and was remanded in custody until February 26.
Peter Bryan, whose address was given as Newham General Hospital in east London, spoke only to confirm his name and address during the brief hearing at Waltham Forest Magistrates Court. No bail application was made.
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