A cook has been sentenced to five years and ten months in prison for manslaughter. The Cologne Regional Court found the 37-year-old Chinese guilty of killing and dismembering a colleague.
The judges saw it as proven that the chef, who had worked with the victim in a Cologne Chinese restaurant, had repeatedly quarreled with his colleague. The situation eventually escalated to kill his adversary out of anger and split the corpse - "as he had learned as part of his cooking education."
The defendant, who according to his lawyer speaks only Chinese, had denied the allegations. The process was therefore indicative of his perpetration.
The victim's torso was discovered in July 2016 by playing children on the banks of the Rhine in a plastic bag. Subsequently, the investigators could not clarify for a long time, who it is with the dead. Only in May 2017 were more pieces of bone found in a forest - again by children who were on a school trip. This led to the identification of the dead.