A man from Pakistan was arrested today on charges of cannibalism after reportedly eating a newborn infant. This comes three years after he was jailed for the same offense of cannibalism.

Mohammad Arif Ali, who has previously admitted to cannibalism, was arrested when neighbors reported the stink of rotting flesh from his house.

Police say they recovered the severed head of the child from his house.

Arif Ali and his brother, Mohammad Farman Ali, were jailed for two years for stealing the body of a dead woman from her grave in 2011. They later admitted to chopping her lower limbs and making them into meat curry. They were sentenced under the law of desecration of the grave, because Pakistan has no law relating to cannibalism.

Their sentences ended in May 2013. Their release from jail sparked public protests in Darya Khan town. The brothers have since kept a low profile, away from the public eye.

AFP has more information on this horrific case: