All news on the topic: Cannibals

Russian president Vladimir Putin's decision to recruit fighters from prisons resulted in a string of crimes as they were freed after going back to their home areas

Robert Maudsley, known as Hannibal the Cannibal, 70, has been kept in solitary confinement for 45 years after killing three other inmates while behind bars for murder

As actress Taylor Russell prepares to present a BAFTA award at the Royal Festival Hall tonight, we take a look at the talented filmstar's relationship with pop supremo Harry Styles

Scarlett Jenkinson, 16, was sentenced to life for the murder of Brianna Ghey and is currently locked up at a secure children's home for young offenders in Leeds

Josef Fritzl is eligible for parole this year and a court psychiatrist says he is 'harmless' . The 88-year-old kept his daughter Elisabeth locked in a cellar for 24 years as his sex slave

The Korowai people of Papua, Indonesia, are thought to be one of the last known societies to practice cannibalism, eating the bodies of those killed by evil spirits to 'protect them from further harm'

A publication called Society of the Snow, a film about the 1970s Andes plane crash, a "cannibal movie" and fans were not happy and took offense commenting under the post

When a Uruguayan plane carrying 45 passengers crashed into the remote Andes mountains in 1972, survivors were forced to resort to cannibalism in a desperate attempt to stay alive

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. The world's worst prisons include Camp 14 Kaechon in North Korea in which inmates as young as 11 are forced into labour and Gldani Prison in Georgia where guards were exposed for rape

Serial killer Robert Mawdsley was locked up in 1974 and separated from other prisoners after he killed three inmates in 1978 and has spent most of his sentence in solitary confinement

WARNING DISTURBING: So-called "Cannibal Kathy" was delivered Australia's first ever life sentence without parole for the grisly murder of her boyfriend John Price that shocked the nation in 2001

The father of infamous American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer died in hospice care at the age of 87, it has been reported. Lionel Dahmer supported and defended his son until his dying day

Yegor Komarov killed his inmate, after he was sentenced to jail for 19 years for crashing a Mitsubishi into a road safety barrier in Sortavala, northern Russia, when the headless body of a businessman fell out of his car boot

The Black Dolphin is one of the world's most notorious prisons and is home to 700 rapists, murderers and cannibals serving life without parole and they're not even allowed out of their cells

After a decade of treatment in an asylum, the man who 'killed and ate' an unhoused individual is being released to the public, avoiding jail time for murder due to an 'insanity' plea

Following the dramatic ending to the annual arts festival deep in the Nevada desert, rumours began to swirl about everything from party-goers resorting to cannibalism to an ebola outbreak

Michael Rockefeller was a member of the Rockefeller clan - one of America's most powerful and wealthy families - who went missing after being last spotted attempting a three-mile swim to the shores of Papua New Guinea

Evil killer Lucy Letby joins more than 60 other callous criminals serving whole life sentences behind bars for their heinous crimes. The former nurse was handed the order after murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others

An adventurer that has travelled to the ends of the earth and back, spent some time with an ancient tribe in Papua New Guinea and attempted to put their customs and practices into perspective has found that their cannibalism is a unique form of 'justice'

WARNING GRAPHIC DETAILS A 32-year-old "devil worshipper" who is alleged to have killed his wife before eating her brain in tacos and using her skull as an ashtray, has been arrested in Mexico

The Mormon cricket - which got its name in the 1800s after ransacking crop fields in Utah - can grow more than two inches long and turn cannibalistic when their food supplies, crops and other vegetation, runs out

The mother, identified only as Hanaa, was arrested after the remains of her five-year-old son Youssef were found by his uncle stuffed in a bucket at the family home in Abu Shalabi, Egypt

Daria Trepova skulked away after handing pro-Vladimir Putin propagandist Vladlen Tatarsky a statue of himself just moments before an explosion ripped through the venue he was speaking at in St Petersburg, Russia

Begoleã Mendes Fernandes, 26, was arrested at Lisbon Airport and Portuguese media alleges that the meat could be the human remains of 21-year-old Alan Lopes

The suspect, named locally as Begolea Mendes Fernandes, is suspected of killing a 21-year-old called Alan Lopes in Amsterdam on Sunday before trying to return to his homeland of Brazil