Kitty's Corner

A Moscow chef killed his father-in-law and then allegedly served him up to customers at his restaurant!

According to police, the 54-year-old chef worked at an establishment well-known for its chebureki, which are large meat-filled pastries, that could easily disguise the odd hunk of flesh or human limb. The human meat was allegedly on sale for three days in a cafe just two miles from the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia.

The chef reportedly killed his 82-year-old father-in-law during a drunken brawl. But police are refusing to either confirm or deny a claim by tabloid newspaper 'Life News' that the chef then ran the dead man's body through a meat grinder, used the resulting product to fill his chebureki, then served the pastries to customers for three days before being caught and sent to a psychiatric institution.

The alleged incident is the latest in a number of cannibal cases to have hit Russia in the past two years :

In May an unemployed man killed his drinking partner and butchered his body in his Moscow flat.

In the western city of St Petersburg in 2009, two cannibals killed a 16-year-old girl, cut her up and ate parts of her body.

The young men explained at their trial that they were 'very hungry'. They were found guilty of murder and sentenced to 18 and 19 years.

Also in 2009, Sergey Gavrilov was jailed for killing and eating parts of his mother.

But the 27-year-old was given a lenient prison sentence because the judge said he was 'starving' and needed to eat after spending all his money on vodka and gambling.

And in August another chef admitted to killing a man and then making sausages and meatballs from the corpse. Ivan L, as he has been named, was so proud of his culinary achievements, including rib dishes, that he posted short video clips on the Internet.

The 21-year-old confessed to police in the Russian city of Murmansk saying that he had a strong desire to eat human flesh. He had used a gay dating website to lure his victim, aged 32, to his flat where he brutally knifed him to death before cutting off his head and feet.

Cannibals who kill and eat their victims in Russia normally receive 15 years in jail for their crimes. Normally?

I'd say that Fava bean and Chianti sales must be doing especially well in Russia. And incidentally, WTF?