article_snippet.sent: The defendant sat impassively with arms folded as the verdict was read out.
article_snippet.sent: The men came across each other in October 2013 on a website for slaughter and cannibalism fantasies billed as the '#1 site for exotic meat' and boasting more than 3,000 registered members.
article_snippet.sent: Described as 'absolutely horrific' and 'beyond belief' by lawyers, the 50-minute tape features Guenzel dismembering the corpse while pop music plays.
article_snippet.sent: the defence team claimed the video, which was shown to judges behind closed doors, proves his victim hanged his victim.
article_snippet.sent: The case mirrors that of Armin Meiwes
article_snippet.sent: , a man found guilty of killing, dismembering and eating computer technician Bernd Brandes at a man remote farmhouse home near Kassel.
article_snippet.sent: Meiwes, now serving life imprisonment, packaged the flesh of a man into neat parcels which a man froze and ate portions of over a ten month period.