Russian chef 'murdered father-in-law, ground up meat and served him as pies to customers in popular cafe near Kremlin'



A chef has been arrested on suspicion of killing his father-in-law, grinding up his flesh in a mincer and serving him in pies to customers in a popular cafe.

The human meat was allegedly on sale for three days in a cafe jut two miles from the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia.

The chef is reported to have killed his father-in-law following an argument last month, police said.

Accused: A chef, who has not yet been named, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his father-in-law, grinding up his meat in a mincer and serving him as pies to customers in a popular cafe close to the Kremlin (pictured)

He is then reported to have hacked up his victim's body before mincing the meat.

It has been claimed that 'dozens of pies' were sold before the exact nature of the ingredient was discovered.

Police said they were now investigating whether human meat was put in the pies.



Neither the arrested man nor the victim were named.



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.



On sale: The human meat was allegedly sold in 'dozens of pies' (stock photograph)

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 his 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, according to police who removed the offensive footage.

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.