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A GROUP of cannibals have been locked up after they ate a friend who offered to cook them dinner.

Alexander Stepaniuk, 41, had invited four pals to his house for a meal.

But the teacher ended up on the menu after the two men and two women beat him to death with a hammer.

The cannibals, who had been drinking vodka, cut Mr Stepaniuk's body up before barbecuing the parts.

They were arrested after worried neighbours in Chernovtsi, Ukraine, called police.

Alexander Woytseshko, 34, Dmitri Chuba, 45, Lilia Kisilitsa, 23, and Svetlana Lupan, 26, admitted murder.

The monsters told cops: "We had nothing against him personally - we just wanted to see what human meat tasted like."

They were sentenced to between three years and life in prison.