Above:Police mugshots of Alexander Kinyua (left) and 37-year-old Ghanaian, Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie. Mr Kinyua is suspected of killing his Ghanian house-mate and eating parts of his body.
A Kenyan man 22 years, accused of cannibalism apologised in a US court for carrying out a separate attack on a fellow student.
“My deepest apology and sympathies will not be able to cover up what happened,” Mr Alexander Kinyua said in pleading guilty, on Wednesday, but denied criminal responsibility in a beating that left his victim blind in one eye.
Judge Gale Rasin, presiding over a court in Baltimore, ordered Kinyua committed to a psychiatric hospital. He could eventually be released if a team of doctors and a judge deem Mr Kinyua to no longer be a menace to society.
“I don’t agree with the court system that he has a chance to be let go,” Mr Kinyua’s alleged victim Joshua Ceasar, 22, said outside the courtroom on Wednesday.
In ordering Mr Kinyua’s confinement, judge Rasin said: “The evidence is overwhelming that Mr Kinyua was suffering from a mental illness at the time of the offence,” according to the Sun’s account.
Prosecutors say they will now move ahead with a first-degree murder charge against Mr Kinyua stemming from the dismemberment of Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, a 37-year-old Ghanaian who had been living in the Kinyua family home in Maryland.
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