BERLIN: A German police officer will go on trial Friday accused of murdering a willing victim he met on a website for cannibalism fetishists.

In a lurid case that made international headlines, prosecutors say the 56-year-old defendant, Detlef Guenzel, confessed to stabbing the throat of a man last November and then cutting his body into small pieces and burying them in his garden.

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