(openPR) - Gay British cannibal could be tip of human flesh-eating iceberg, warns crime author
A gay British man, the first ever winner of the "Mr Gay UK" competition, has been charged with the murder of a man he picked up - possibly via a website. The case has chilling echoes of gay German cannibal Armin Meiwes.
The naked body of Damian Oldfield, 33, an advertising salesman on a Leeds-based magazine called Bent, was found in a house in Leeds, in the north of England, last week following remarks the suspected killer made at a local takeaway.
Police said that part of Oldfield's right leg had been cut out and pieces of diced meat were discovered in pot on a kitchen stove. Forensic tests on the meat showed it to be human.
The suspect - Anthony Francis Morley (35), who is currently awaiting trial - is thought to have eaten some of it.
It is suspected that the two men may have met via an internet dating or social networking website.
UK crime author Jimmy Lee Shreeve, whose latest book "Cannibals" (www.jimmyleeshreeve.com) explores many grisly cases of human flesh eaters, warns that this murder could well be the tip of the iceberg.
"During my researches for the book, I talked to a man who claimed he stole human meat from mortuaries to eat," says Shreeve. "He had never killed anyone. But worryingly, he told me that cannibals are eyeing people up on MySpace and Facebook with view to eating them."
The cannibal put Shreeve in touch with some of them to help with research for his book on cannibalism.
"The scary thing was you wouldn't recognise them for what they were if they lived next door to you," Shreeve warns. "My fear is that one day they might single someone out from a social networking site, track them down, and do an Armin Meiwes on them. This could well have been the way Morley and Oldfield first came into contact."
Valleydrive House
Borrowdale Drive
Norwich, Norfolk, NR1
England.
Jimmy Lee Shreeve is a British true crime author, poker player and journalist. His books include "Cannibals" (Blake 2008), Human Sacrifice (Barricade 2008) and Doktor Snake's Voodoo Spellbook (St Martin's Press 2004).
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