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A cannibal killer has spoken of the moment he sliced a teenage mother to death in front of her child and then fed bits of the flesh to the tot.

Jorge Beltrao Negromonte said he could only remember blood spurting from the neck of Jessica da Silva as he savagely murdered her after the 17-year-old told him she wanted to leave his house with her 18-month-old daughter and go home to her family.

Negromonte and his wife Isabel Cristina Pires, and mistress Bruna Cristina da Silva had lured the 17-year-old homeless girl to their home.

Speaking of the moment he killed Jessica, Negromonte told the Mail Online she had told him she wanted to leave, but he was having a mental health episode, having been convinced by his mistress to stop.

He said: "After that I only remember flashes. Blood spurting from her neck, her lifeless body in the bathroom, then her in pieces on the bathroom floor."

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He woke up the following day and the house was clean, with tragic Jessica's body stripped of flesh - which had been stored in the freezer - and the bones buried in the back garden.

Negromonte also claimed to have been inspired to kill by a book about satanic rituals and revealed he considered human flesh to taste like beef.

The twisted killer was jailed last year along with his wife and mistress for murdering three young women, skinning their bodies and eating the flesh.

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They are said to have even turned some of the meat into pies, which were then sold on.

Speaking to Mail Online from prison, the 54-year-old, who has been jailed for 23 years, told how human flesh was not any different to beef.

He said: "We'd often cook it in a Mexican stew called carne guisada, with vegetables. Isabel would use it to make a typical northeastern dish called Macaxeira, made from cassava root, which was tasty."

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The beast claimed the meat from each victim would last up to four days, with them eating the flesh for lunch and dinner.

The trio were found guilty by a court in Olinda, north east Brazil, last year of luring tragic Jessica to their house on the promise of a job, slitting her throat and eating her after dismembering her body.

They feasted on her remains the day after after seasoning them with salt and cumin.

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A court last year heard the dead woman’s one-year-old child, who da Silva raised as her own until their arrest four years later, was given her mum’s flesh to eat.

The sick trio, who claimed to be part of a sect that wanted to reduce the world’s population, confessed to their horrendous crimes during a 40-hour trial.

Negromonte was sentenced to 23 years in jail and the two women to 20 years in prison each for the May 2008 crime.

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At the opening of their trial, it was claimed they sold pasties containing human meat they pretended was chicken to unsuspecting customers including school children.

State prosecutor Eliane Gaia said: “We’ve tried the most terrible crimes but never a case of cannibalism.

“We’ve never seen a case of a human eating the flesh of another human being. And they did this with coldness or any pity for their victim.”