A Nigerian restaurant has reportedly been shut down for cooking human flesh and serving it to customers.
The police were tipped off by locals who suspected something horrific was taking place inside the kitchen.
They raided the hotel restaurant to discover human heads which were still dripping with blood in plastic bags.
A local priest who ate at the restaurant – in the south-eastern province of Anambra – was alarmed at the price of meals there, let alone where the meat came from, BBC Swahili reported.
He was presented with a bill of 700 Naira – around £2.20 – when the daily wage for tens of millions of Nigerians is approximately 60p.
The priest said: ‘The attendant noticed my reaction and told me it was the small piece of meat I had eaten that made the bill scale that high.
‘I did not know I had been served with human meat, and that it was that expensive.’The police also found a terrifying arsenal of weapons which included grenades when they raided the restaurant. Ten people were arrested in connection to the crimes.
One resident said: ‘I am not surprised at the shocking revelation… Every time I went to the market, I observed strange activities going on in the hotel.
‘People who were never cleanly dressed and who looked a bit strange made their way in and out of the hotel, making me very suspicious of their activities.’
The fascination with Hannibal cooking lung and loin bourguignon has apparently inspired the two to wonder exactly what flavour we have.
With cannibalism being illegal, the wretched chefs have gathered testimonies of murderers and long-dead explorers for “some notable human-eaters’ tasting notes”.
Cannibal was polite, well-spoken and a ‘very nice man’.
An alleged cannibal accused of killing a Gugulethu man and eating his heart with a knife and fork, cried in court.
Andrew “Master Benson” Chimbozo, 34, appeared in the Athlone Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. His bail application was postponed until next month, and he was referred to the district surgeon to determine if he needed mental observation.
Chimbozo, a black Zimbabwean who lives in Langa, visited Nomonde Tshabalala in Gugulethu on June 10, and gave her money to buy liquor at a local shebeen.
It is alleged that while she was gone he stabbed her partner Mbuyiselo Manona, 62. Police arrived to find him eating Manona’s heart with a knife and fork.
On Thursday, Chimbozo emerged from the holding cells to the jeers of a packed public gallery.
Chimbozo cried silently throughout the brief proceedings and did not utter a word. As he turned to face the public benches on his way back down to the holding cells, disparaging comments from the crowd were audible.
A legal aid consultant remarked that after spending some time with Chimbozo, she felt sorry for him. She said he was polite, well-spoken and a “very nice man”.
Outside court, Letisha Vapi was coming to terms with the idea that the alleged cannibal was her niece’s partner.
Linetti Vapi, who has been in a relationship with Chimbozo for two years, is in hospital with tuberculosis.
Her aunt said Chimbozo had always treated her well, and visited her in hospital every day. “Even the day he killed somebody, he went to hospital first,” Letisha said. “He treated Linetti as a lady. He gave her everything. We were surprised when we heard about this.”
A man from Gugulethu, Cape Town, was killed by an black attacker who then cut out his heart and ate it with a knife and fork.
Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk said: “At the scene police found the suspect, a Zimbabwean national, eating the heart of a human with a knife and fork.”
A 35-year-old man was arrested.
Mbuyiselo Manona, 62, was killed at about 10.30pm on Tuesday.
Van Wyk said Manona had been stabbed in the chest. There were also bites on his neck and face.
A witness, Nkululeko Mpambo, said he had seen part of the attack through a window. He was too frightened to go into the house.
Mpambo said he saw a man sitting next to Manona’s body on the bedroom floor .
“His hands were bloody and he kept digging from the body and stuffing his face.”
Mpambo said when he followed police to the bedroom the alleged perpetrator had a piece of the heart dripping from his mouth.
Manona’s partner, Nomonde Tshabalala, said she knew the suspect because he did window-tinting jobs for them.
The dead man’s sister said her brother was a sweet and humble man who would never hurt a fly.
“We used to take our chances with him, but he would never shout at us. He loved music and grew up a sportsman. We are really going to miss him.”
Police said the motive for the murder was unclear.
The BBC reports that “a man who ate another man’s flesh in the Central African Republic has told the broadcaster that he was seeking ‘revenge’ for the murder of family members”.
The man, who calls himself “Mad Dog”, was in a Christian mob who attacked a Muslim in the capital Bangui.
He said he had been “angry” because Muslims killed his pregnant wife, his-sister-in law and her baby.
At least 1,000 people have been killed since violence broke out in the Christian-majority country in December.
Tens of thousands have also been forced to flee their homes in the sectarian conflict.
‘Magic’ powers
“Mad Dog” told the BBC’s Paul Wood he had seen his victim sitting on a minibus and decided to follow him.
More and more people joined him until he was at the head of a mob of some 20 youths, he said.
They forced the bus driver to stop and dragged the Muslim man out on the street, where he was beaten and stabbed before being set on fire.
Footage of the incident shows “Mad Dog” eating the man’s leg.
According to eyewitnesses, no-one tried to intervene.
Some people in the Central African Republic wear amulets containing the flesh of men they have killed because they believe it makes them invincible. – extract from bbc.co.uk
An infamous Papua New Guinea cult leader known as “Black Jesus” was castrated by an angry mob after being hacked to death for killing young girls as sacrifices, reports said on Monday.
Steven Tari, a convicted rapist who was suspected of cannibalism, was killed in a remote PNG village last week, with gory details of his death emerging.
The National newspaper said Tari, who had been on the run since escaping from a prison in Madang in the Pacific nation’s east during a mass break-out with 48 others in March, was hunted down by 80 men.
It said he was killed, castrated and then dragged with a cane tied around his neck to a shallow pit where his body was dumped.
The corpse was dug up by police, prison and health workers on Friday. Juith Gawi, a doctor at Modilion Hospital, said he had multiple knife wounds.
“He was chopped and slashed with bush knives on both arms and legs, chest and stomach which revealed his intestines. He was also castrated,” Gawi said.
Tari, a failed Lutheran pastor who was widely known as Black Jesus, was found guilty in 2010 of raping girls who belonged to his Christian-based sect and sentenced to up to 10 years.
At the time, he had thousands of village followers, including a core of armed warriors to protect him, in what is commonly referred to in PNG as a “cargo cult”.
As part of his “culture ministry”, he preached that young girls were to be “married” to him as it was God’s prophecy.
The National said villagers where he was hiding became fed up with cult beliefs and practices, which included “the killing of young girls as sacrifices”.
Local police official Ray Ban said Tari and his followers offered Rose Wagum, 15, last week as a “sacrifice”. She was found with stab wounds and reportedly died of blood loss.
The group also tried to offer another 14-year-old girl but were stopped by the mob which eventually killed Tari.
The National said Wagum’s aunt was the first known “flower girl” for Tari and found young virgins for him, and it was she who took her niece to his camp to be sacrificed.
Ban said at least one other girl was still missing.
“Tari is dead and this cult worship dies with him,” Ban said.
“Stop this worship now. If I hear any more cult worship here, I will return with my men.”
When he was captured in 2007, there were widespread allegations that Tari’s cult also practised cannibalism along with sacrificial blood rituals, but police only charged him with rape.
PNG is a sprawling nation where black magic, sorcery and cannibalism sometimes occur.
Last year, police arrested dozens of people linked to an alleged cannibal cult accused of killing at least seven people, eating their brains raw and making soup from their penises. – AFP
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