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UK's Gay 'Cannibal' Chef Gets 30-to-Life

Gruesome murder 'plumbed depths rarely encountered': judge

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 20, 2008 12:40 PM CDT

(Newser) – The British “cannibal chef” who cooked and ate parts of his boyfriend after killing him was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison today, the Telegraph reports. Applause and cries of “murderer” exploded from the gallery after Anthony Morely, 36, was sentenced. The judge called it “one of the most gruesome murders” he had seen. “You have plumbed depths rarely encountered in our court,” he told Morely.

Anthony Morley, 36, a chef who was sentenced today to minimum of 30 years in prison for killing a man with a knife and cooking and eating his flesh.
Anthony Morley, 36, a chef who was sentenced today to minimum of 30 years in prison for killing a man with a knife and cooking and eating his flesh.   (AP Photo)
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Not only did you murder your victim but you cut him up, cooked and ate part of him. Before this case I had associated cannibalism with eras long gone, with the tale of Robinson Crusoe. No longer.
- James Stewart

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