“The parents of cannibal murder suspect Peter Bryan told last night how their son killed a teenage girl 11 years ago. Distraught dad Frank said Bryan — who has a history of mental illness — was sent to Rampton secure hospital after the killing. And he said he was horrified when police told him that his son was now accused of murdering and dismembering 43-year-old Brian Cherry and cooking his brain on a hob. Frank, 78, said: ‘When I think about the dismemberment I feel sick, so sick. Hearing the details makes me feel ill. I’m so hurt. You cannot imagine how it feels for a parent to hear that your son is suspected of murder.’” — Daily Sun (UK)

(Thanks to alanr for the link.)

After the sensational German cannibal trial, it’s hard to get very excited about the various other cannibals out there — and, shockingly enough, they’re out there. In comparison to the German cannibal, all these other cannibals just seem so two-bit, so second-rate, so cheap. This British cannibal was actually caught cooking up his victim’s brain on the stove — and yet somehow it just doesn’t give you that awful frisson the German cannibal gave you. Perhaps the reason is because it wasn’t the cannibalism itself but rather the victim’s collusion that made the German episode so shocking. It’s easier to understand the desire to eat someone than it is to understand the desire to be eaten, especially when the victim eats himself — eats his own penis — as in the German case.

Anyway, this certainly is no consolation to the parents of this British maneater. It must really be an awful thing to learn that your kid is such a sicko. This particular guy had already caused his parents enough heartache with a previous murder conviction, drug abuse, insanity — now he has to go and eat somebody’s brain. It’s not what you call being a good son.

If you follow the link to read the story, have a long look at the picture of the cannibal as a young boy. It’s always weird to see pictures of murderers and freaks when they were little children. Naturally you tend to think of children as innocent, and yet with the benefit of hindsight you know that this particular child became a cannibalistic creep, and so you experience a fundamental contradiction looking at the picture. You can’t reconcile your notion of innate innocence with your knowledge of actual guilt. Somehow you even want to laugh at the picture — mentally you superimpose the crime over the little face and it seems too big for him, too adult, and therefore you laugh in the same way you would if you saw him dressed in his father’s clothes.

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