18 Years Jail For Zimbabwean Cannibal Who Ate Man’s Heart With Knife & Fork

Hannibal Lecter’s African version is alive and was sentenced by a court last week to 18 years prison term. Andrew Chimboza, 35, was found by the Western Cape High Court guilty of murder. Judge Ashley Bins-Ward said the crime was “extremely brutal.”

However, Chimboza went beyond killing 62-year-old Mbuyiselo Manona after they argued when Manona accused Chimboza of having sex with his girlfriend. The incident happened in Gugulethu township in Cape Town, South Africa, in June 2014. Before the argument, Manona attacked Chimboza, reports the New York Times.

To get even, Chimboza cut Manona’s throat and stabbed him several times. Then he cut the old man’s heart, chopped and ate it. A policeman told the court he saw Chimboza eating the heart with a knife and fork.

Chimboza, who filed a guilty plea, said he ate Manona’s heart “because it was full of hatred and jealously.” However, he later retracted and said he did not know why he ate his victim’s heart.

Lecter is the main character in the award-winning 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs. Lecter was serving a life term in the movie for murder and cannibalism, which is the charge, in addition to murder and rape, that 34-year-old Joseph Oberhansley of Clark County, Indiana, has been accused of on Tuesday.

Oberhansley broke into the house of his former girlfriend, Tammy Jo Blanton, in Jeffersonville then allegedly killed her. He reportedly had sex with the corpse and ate parts of her body. The man has filed a not guilty plea to the charges, reports Reuters.

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