FAMOUS cannibals with a craving for Human flesh

Taste for death ... Jeffrey Dahmer

FAMOUS cannibals include serial killer and sex beast Jeffrey Dahmer.
He murdered, dismembered and ate 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991 and died three years later after being beaten up in a US jail.

Performance artist Rick Gibson became the first person in British history to legally perform an act of cannibalism in 1988.He ate a canape of donated human tonsils in Walthamstow, North London. A year later, he repeated the show with a legally purchased human testicle.

German cannibal Armin Meiwes killed and ate a voluntary victim he met on the internet in 2004.
He was caged for eight and a half years for manslaughter.

In fiction, the most famous flesh eater is Hannibal Lecter who confessed in Silence of the Lambs: "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."