Russian judge reduces mother-eating cannibal's sentence... because the guy was hungry

[charlie]

If he'd reminded the judge he was a hungry orphan, he probably be free today.

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...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/6543233/Russian-cannibal-who-ate-mother-has-sentence-reduced-because-he-was-hungry.html

A court heard how he put her body on the balcony of the family flat near Samara, in southern Russia, and took her allowance before going on a two day drinking and gambling binge.

Returning to the flat, he soon ran out of food and started slicing meat from his mother's body.

'She was frozen, like meat in the freezer,' he told police.

He cooked soup and pasta with meat from his mother's body over a period of more than a month, he said...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1226694/Russian-cannibal-ate-mother-given-lighter-sentence-judge-says-starving-needed-eat.html

[malaise]

1. You sure find the most amazing stories from around

the world. This guy needs mental health treatment. He's seriously sick. :hi:

[charlie]

2. Too late for that

Per the second article, he was evaluated and found "normal".

I wonder if anybody thought to ask him how big a supply of pasta he had on hand while chowing on Dear Mum.

[malaise]

3. LOL

He's clearly not a vegetarian - the man needs his meat from wherever including mommy.

[TexasObserver]

4. I love my mother, too, but not for lunch.

[rug]

5. He should have had the time added back for saying his mother was fat.

[tomm2thumbs]

6. reminds me of a bad horror flick 'I Dismember Mama'

clearly if he had enough pasta to eat, he could have done without the 'meat'