“‘”Meiwes faces life in prison if convicted, but his lawyer argued the crime was a form of mercy killing, which carries a punishment of five years. Yesterday, prison shrink Heinrich Wilmer testified that Meiwes is in good mental health, although he needs psychotherapy. Meanwhile, Meiwes spent the next three hours reading a Star Trek book while Bernd bled to death in. Prosecutors say the slaughter – which began with Meiwes cutting off Brandes’ penis – was sexually motivated and they have charged Meiwes with murder, despite concluding he had the victim’s consent. The whole episode was filmed by them on videotape. But most damning of all, was the videotape Meiwes recorded of the entire. His mother would follow him on play dates and later on romantic dates. Armin Meiwes advertised online for a willing victim to be slaughtered and. “Yes, but my teeth are still pretty white.” Armin Meiwes was born in 1961 in Germany to a neglectful father and an over- dominating mother. In the e-mails, read in a courtroom in Kassel, Germany, Meiwes, 42, and Brandes, 43, also engaged in gruesome small talk. “You could use it as an ashtray,” Brandes suggested. “I’ll leave it, I don’t want to split your skull,” Meiwes replied. Meiwes set up a warm bath for Brandes and left him to soak overnight. As is known from a videotape the two made when they met on March 9. After trying to eat his own penis, Brandes requested a bath. It involves two men, Armin Meiwes and Bernd Jrgen Brandes: Looking for a willing. Meiwes then slaughtered Brandes and placed the body on a meat hook. Meiwes started by amputating the penis of Brandes and the two ate it. The details of the massacre are gruesome and hard to describe. The entire event was filmed on a 2 hour long videotape. When Meiwes said he was making spaghetti carbonara for dinner, his future victim replied: “You don’t have to buy meat again, there will be plenty left. Some of the photos taken inside Armin Meiwes house, where he killed and ate Bernd Brandes. On March 9, 2001, the two met at Meiwes house in Rotenburg, Germany and Brandes was killed. “I’ve been looking for contacts to eat since 1999 – without the Internet, it wouldn’t have been possible,” Meiwes wrote to techno-geek Bernd Jergen Brandes, whom he met on the Web in 2001. Horrifying e-mails between German cannibal freak Armin Meiwes and the willing victim he chopped up, cooked and ate on videotape were revealed in court yesterday.