Man who killed and ate victims gets life
Victims: Suzanne Blamires, 36, and Shelley Armitage, 31 and Susan Rushworth, 43
Stephen Griffiths who calls himself the "Crossbow Cannibal" shot his victims, Robin Hood style, before dismembering them, cooking and eating parts of their bodies.
Griffiths told detectives in the United Kingdom he cooked flesh from his first two women victims and ate the third one raw.
All three were chopped up in the bathroom, which Griffiths described as a slaughterhouse.
Griffiths, 40, who was obsessed with serial killers, murdered prostitutes Suzanne Blamires, Shelley Armitage and Susan Rushworth near his home in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
Griffiths, who pleaded guilty to the murders at Leeds Crown Court, was caught when a caretaker at the flats where he lived saw horrific CCTV footage of Blamires's final moments.
When arrested, Griffiths told police "I've killed loads" and claimed he had eaten some of Blamires's flesh, adding: "That's part of the magic".
The caretaker made a grim discovery while reviewing CCTV footage, that showed Blamires running out of Griffiths's flat with her killer in pursuit.
She was then seen being dragged along the floor by her leg by Griffiths.
Smith said Griffiths was seen to have something in his hand.
The woman was then shot with a crossbow before Griffiths "gestured" by holding a finger up to the camera.
Smith told the court how Griffiths told arresting officers: "I'm Osama bin Laden".
The prosecutor said he told police officers: "I've killed a lot more than Suzanne Blamires - I've killed loads."
Smith said Griffiths had admitted killing Blamires in the flat and dismembering her by hand. He said power tools had been used on the other victims.
Smith told the court 81 different pieces of Ms Blamires were found in or by a nearby river.
The prosecutor said Blamires' body was reconstructed and pathologists were able to piece together how she died.
They decided she had not been sexually assaulted.
The court was told Griffiths possessed a number of "disturbing video recordings and images."
One image showed Armitage lying dead in the bath. Another, unidentified victim, was lying bound on the living room floor with green twine.
At one point video footage showed the hands of the defendant fondling the victim's bottom.
Smith said furniture and the walls in the flat were splattered with blood.
He told police he was studying for a PhD in homicide, had "cut himself off from society" and that a "civil war" was going on in his head.
