A man accused of killing a prostitute and hacking her to bits before throwing her body parts in a lake has reportedly admitted to police that he hid her entrails in his freezer to eat later.

Alfred U., 63, was arrested on suspicion of the murder of a Slovakian prostitute, whose name has not been released, at his home in the Austrian capital of Vienna.

Police launched an investigation after an angler found a female torso at the bottom of the shallow Lake Neusiedl, which straddles the border between Austria and Hungary.

The woman's severed head was later recovered as well, with Austrian investigators suspecting the body parts had been at the bottom of the lake for months.

Alfred U. (pictured) reportedly admitted to police that he hid a prostitute's entrails in his freezer to eat later

On Wednesday, police and prosecutors held a joint press conference in the town of Eisenstadt, where Alfred U. is currently in custody.

Police said they found the entrails of the prostitute in Alfred U.'s freezer in his small reed hut on the shore by Lake Neusiedl.

When they confronted him, Alfred U. told them he is a cannibal and that he wanted to eat the woman's flesh, local media reported.

'I intended to taste it at a later date,' he reportedly said.

Alfred U. allegedly told police he first cut the body into pieces with a knife and a saw in his bathtub in his house in the Brigittenau borough of Vienna.

Police launched an investigation after an angler found a female torso at the bottom of the shallow Lake Neusiedl (above)

Police said they found the entrails of the prostitute in Alfred U.'s freezer in his small reed hut on the shore by Lake Neusiedl (pictured)

He then said he decided to crush the woman's entrails to make them small enough to go in his freezer.

He is said to have revealed that he then drove several times in his old Mercedes to his hut on Lake Neusiedl, where he disposed of the body piece by piece - but kept the entrails.

During the press conference, chief police investigator Harald Brenner said Alfred U. tried to 'lay down a false track' to hide his crime.

Only when the investigators found DNA traces of the woman did they manage to find hard evidence, after which Alfred U. confessed to the crime.

Alfred U., a former convict who has spent 32 years in prison, allegedly also told police he met his victim at one of Vienna's railway terminals and described her as a 'chance acquaintance.'

On Wednesday, police and prosecutors held a joint press conference in the town of Eisenstadt, where Alfred U. is currently in custody

He told police he took the woman to his house for sex and that her death was 'certainly not with intent.'

'I asked her to be kind to me, to kiss and caress me. She refused. I grabbed her on her bosom, then she suddenly started to scream,' he said.

'I could not stand those cries, I had to strangle her to silence it.'

Police say his previous sentences include being jailed in 1984 for attacking a love rival with an iron bar, and raping his girlfriend and biting off her nipple.

Alfred U. also told police: 'I am not a bad person. I only wanted the women to love me. But they didn't treat me well.'

He is currently locked up in investigative custody in Austria's Eisenstadt Prison.

Alfred U. told police officers he was resigned to spending the rest of his life behind bars, adding: 'To tell the truth I was happier in prison than outside.'



