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

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. (More gays stories.)

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