French cannibal prisoner who ate cellmate's lung sentenced to 30 years

French cannibal prisoner who ate cellmate's lung sentenced to 30 years

The French prisoner who killed his cellmate and then sliced open his chest to remove and eat his lung has been sentenced to serve another 30 years in prison.

Nicolas Cocaign sliced open Baudry's chest with a razor blade, removed a rib and pulled out an organ Photo: AFP

Nicolas Cocaign has admitted to beating and stabbing Thierry Baudry with a pair of scissors before smothering him with a rubbish bag in the prison in the north-western city of Rouen in January 2007.

In a sensational four-day trial, the 38-year-old testified that he cut open Baudry's chest with a razor blade and ripped out the lung, eating part of it raw before frying the rest with onions on a camping stove in his cell.

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