Gross! Cannibal chef in UK murdered, then cooked gay acquaintance
During the text exchange, Morley told Mr Oldfield he had “never been properly happy being gay”.
Mr Oldfield, who was openly gay and sold ads for a gay lifestyle magazine, replied: “Try me … I’m not your average poof,” the Daily Mail said.
The pair exchanged increasingly affectionate messages and arranged to meet at a bar in Leeds, with Morley saying he “wanted to take it slow”.
Later that night, the pair ended up in Morley’s bedroom. Both had been drinking during the evening and there was sexual activity, the court heard.
The court was told Morley then used two knives taken from his kitchen downstairs to kill Mr Oldfield, the paper said.
He slit his throat, cutting a vein and an artery, and stabbed him with great force in the chest and 19 times in the back, the paper said.
Anthony Morley, 36, a chef and former Mr Gay UK in the central UK city of Leeds, is accused of meeting an ad salesman for a gay magazine, Damian Oldfield, 33, whom he had known for years, murdering him during the meeting, then cooking and seasoning a portion of his leg before chewing it briefly and throwing it in the trash. Morley is said to have then told people to call the police, but he maintains that the victim tried to rape him. (Sydney Morning Herald)
”He continued to stab and stab and stab him until he died. Even when he was dead the attack continued until finally Mr Morley cut parts of flesh from the body…. From a chopping board on one of the kitchen units, six pieces of cooked flesh, which had been seasoned with fresh herbs and fried in olive oil were recovered. The flesh was human in origin. A further piece of cooked flesh, which appears to have been chewed, was recovered from a bin bag in the kitchen.”
Just part of the horrible, grisly details revealed by prosecutor Andrew Stubbs in the case of Anthony Morley of Leeds, UK, who allegedly murdered and mutilated a gay acquaintance after having some sort of sexual activity with him. Morley, the accused, is being described as ”troubled by his sexuality.” (Telegraph.co.uk)
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