Naked German cannibal poses with an axe in dungeon where he murdered, chopped up and ate WILLING victim he’d met online
Ex-policeman Detlev Guenzel spent five hours chopping up the body of his politician victim and partially eating it after they met on a cannibal fetish website
A CANNIBAL who boldly posed naked next to a skeleton in the dungeon where he killed and ate a man has been found guilty of murder a second time - despite insisting his willing victim committed suicide.
Ex-policeman Detlev Guenzel spent five hours chopping up the body of his politician victim and partially eating it.
The victim's penis and one testicle were never found, but the rest of his dismembered corpse was discovered in flowerbeds in Guenzel's garden.
The sick killer was convicted of murdering Wojciech Stempniewicz last year and sentenced to eight-and-a-half years behind bars.
But he appealed, claiming he could not be found guilty of the Polish-born businessman's murder because he had committed suicide.
The prison term was overturned by the country's supreme court, the Federal Court of Justice, earlier this year.
Now a fresh trial has ended in Dresden with Guenzel having his imprisonment term extended by a month.
The prosecution had sought a life sentence.
Guenzel earned the right to a new hearing after justices ruled that the suicide defence was not "adequately probed" during the first trial.
He was found guilty of murder and disturbing the peace of the dead.
Judges ruled that the fact local conservative CDU politician Mr Stempniewicz had wanted to die meant Guenzel deserved some leniency.
During the new hearings he told the court: "I am really sorry, I am partially responsible, but I am not a murderer."
The original case, centering on lurid appetites for human flesh, captivated the country.
Detectives believe Stempniewicz - who went under the name of 'LongpigHeszla' on sick websites devoted to torture and bondage - was killed and partially eaten by police forensic specialist Guenzel at his lonely home in mountains near Dresden.
Stempniewicz nursed twisted fantasies of being killed and eaten and trawled the internet for an entire year before he found a willing predator.
In one message to a user calling himself 'Butcher755' in November 2012, he asked about a contraption in his house designed to winch-up his body after he had been killed.
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"Can you describe a little more the room and your equipment? Did you check the load-bearing capacity of the rods? Will it withstand my weight?" he asked on the Zambian Meat website - the same forum where German cannibal Armin Meiwes found his willing prey back in 2001.
In November 2013 Stempniewicz, who ran a trucking logistics business in Hanover, met up with Guenzel on the internet - his killer who went by the name of 'Caligula.'
Guenzel collected Stempniewicz, 59, from Dresden's bus station on November 4 that year and drove him to the cheap B&B he ran with a gay man in the Erzgebirge Mountains.
Once inside, he took him to the cellar and - according to testimony at the first trial - slashed his throat, collecting his blood in an old paint pot.
The fiancee of Stempniewicz, a Russian woman identified only as Svetlana, called police when her lover did not return home again.
'Caligula' was traced via the computer messages and telephone calls he had with his victim and he was arrested at the police HQ where he worked as a handwriting specialist early in 2014.
Guenzel admitted slicing the corpse up but claims Stempniewicz hanged himself and that he did not consume the flesh of his victim. He was found guilty of murder in April 2015.
The case mirrored that of Meiwes, a man who first shone the spotlight on the underbelly of perverted sex in Germany, when he spoke at his trial of killing, dismembering and eating computer technician Bernd Brandes at his remote farmhouse home near Kassel.
Meiwes, now serving life imprisonment, packaged the flesh of his 16 stone victim into neat parcels which he froze and ate portions of over a ten month period. When police finally arrived to arrest him there was less than 40lbs of Brandes remaining.
Court observers said the difficulty for Guenzel's legal team was in proving suicide when the corpse no longer exists and there were no witnesses as to what happened in the pension.
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