{{A Kenyan man who had been charged with killing a Ghanaian housemate and eating his heart and brains has pleaded guilty in a US court.}}<\/p>\n
Alexander Kinyua, 22, told a Harford County judge in Maryland Monday that he killed his friend with an axe and ate his heart. <\/p>\n
But in his ruling, judge Stephen Waldron found the defendant not criminally responsible for the act due to what he termed as mental illness. <\/p>\n
The ruling means that Kinyua, who prior to the bizarre incident was a Mechanical Engineering student at Morgan State University, will now be committed to a mental health facility indefinitely. <\/p>\n
He was quickly whisked away to the state’s maximum-security psychiatric hospital after the ruling.<\/p>\n
The court heard that on May 25 last year, Kinyua killed Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie with an axe while he slept.<\/p>\n
He also dismembered the body, consumed the heart, hid the head and hands in the home and placed the remaining body parts in a trash bin in a nearby church parking lot.<\/p>\n
{{GRUESOME FIND}}<\/p>\n
The gruesome find was made by Kinyua\u2019s father, who called a Harford County detective and told him that he had come across two metal tins containing human body parts covered by a blanket in the basement laundry room, the court heard.<\/p>\n
“The tins contained the head and two hands of the housemate who lived in Joppatowne, Maryland, and had been reported missing. Police found the rest of the victim\u2019s remains in a dumpster,\u201d said Harford County State’s Attorney Joseph Cassilly.<\/p>\n
On Monday, prosecutors made a grisly description of how the murder was committed saying they discovered a charred serving dish in which Kujoe dismembered hands and other body parts were placed.<\/p>\n
Before the ruling, Percess Veronica Mattison, a longtime family friend of the slain Ghanaian told the judge that the murder had devastated the victim’s family.<\/p>\n
{{IRREPLACEABLE LOSS}}<\/p>\n
“We all could see him soaring to great heights in the world. This was not to be,” Ms Mattison said.<\/p>\n
“He was slaughtered in the most brutal, inhumane fashion by Alexander Kinyua. This is an irreplaceable loss accompanied by much pain.”<\/p>\n
She disagreed with the psychiatrist\u2019s findings that Kinyua was of unsound mind when he committed the crime.<\/p>\n
“Someone acting with such care to conceal evidence, and demonstrating the capacity to cover his tracks so competently does not appear to be experiencing a mental deficiency,” Ms Mattison said.<\/p>\n
“Alexander did not impulsively commit the crime, he prepared Kujoe for consumption,” she said.<\/p>\n
But Kinyua spoke softly as he responded to questions from the judge. He said that the medications he has been taking were helping him.<\/p>\n
A psychiatric assessment determined that Kinyua was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, which is a mental condition.<\/p>\n
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