Russian cannibal who ate his mother given lighter sentence - judge says 'he needed to eat'

dailymail.co.uk ^ | Nov. 10, 2009 | Will Stewart

[Free ThinkerNY]

A cannibal who killed and ate parts of his mother had his sentence reduced by a judge who said 'he needed to eat'.

Sergey Gavrilov secured reduced time in jail after confessing: 'I did not like the meat very much. It was too fatty. But I was so hungry, I had to eat it.'

The 27-year-old was given a lenient prison sentence because the judge said he was starving and needed to eat after spending all his money on vodka and gambling machines.

The Russian man hit his mother Lyubov, 55, over the head with a brick and then strangled her with an electric cable following a row over her refusal to give him her pension money to spend on alcohol.

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.

[Revolting cat!]

Evidently, she tasted like chicken!

[DannyTN]

This judge would be great for the Ninth Circuit!

[MNDude]

clowns taste funny.

[a fool in paradise]

The Russian man hit his mother Lyubov, 55, over the head with a brick and then strangled her with an electric cable following a row over her refusal to give him her pension money to spend on alcohol.

It sounds like he needed to DRINK!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Hey, give him a break! He’s an orphan!

[libh8er]

It doesn’t say what he washed down the meat with..

[Puppage]

Did ya hear about the cannibal who passed his mother in the woods?

[null and void]

This judge would be great for the Ninth Circuit!

He would be an improvement.

The only trick he missed is being merciful because Sergey was an orphan...

[a fool in paradise]

"It tastes like Grandma."

[null and void]

Darn you.

[hcmama]

That reminds me; I need to think about what to fix for dinner tonight.

[MNDude]

he got the cold shoulder

[GeronL]

Wow. These idiot judges have gone global.

France forced a man to support his adult son for however long it took for the guy to get a job

Italy reduced the sentence for ..err... just days ago... dang I forget....

And a few years back, if I remember, a Canadian court tried to legalize kiddie porn.

Oh yea, crazy judges are not just for America anymore.

[a fool in paradise]

The judge said, “Take my wife, PLEASE!”

[Revolting cat!]

Mom’s Bar-B-Que!

[matt1234]

Sounds like he knows how to cook fairly well. When he’s released after his light sentence, he can open a restaurant.

[SC DOC]

MOMMA VODKA PASTA

[DPMD]

Poor guy was starving. And, besides, he was an orphan.

[Darteaus94025]

Why don’t they put him in State run therapy?