Sergei Gavrilov, a Russian man who admitted killing and then eating parts of his mother’s legs, has had his sentence reduced by nine months after a court accepted his claim he had resorted to it out of hunger, rather than preference.
The man used parts of his murdered mother’s legs in pasta and soup’s for weeks, but claiming he was driven to the act out of hunger, as he had run out of money and was starving. The court did find him guilty of murder, though, handing down a sentence of 14 years and 3 months, 9 months less than the minimum 15 years, due to the decision.
Gavrilov is said to have killed his 55-year old mother because she wouldn’t hand over her pension, he admitted wanting the money to go on a drinking and gambling binge. He hit his mother on the head with a brick, before strangling her with an electrical cord, then leaving the body on a balcony.
Two weeks later, after spending all of her money, Gavrilov discovered that her body has frozen on the balcony. It was then he began slicing sections from her legs and eating them to keep hunger at bay.
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