A notorious Russian cannibal has killed his cellmate after he was sentenced to 19 years behind bars when officers found a headless body in the boot of his car following a road accident.
Yegor Komarov, 25, allegedly slit the throat of his cellmate by inflicting a razor blade wound to the 42-year-old’s neck, local law enforcement said.
The cannibal was found next to the inmate’s corpse in Vyborg pre-trial detention centre.
The killing came after Komarov was sentenced to 19 years in jail in a strict penal colony after the headless body of a businessman fell out of his car boot when he crashed his Mitsubishi into a road safety barrier in Sortavala, in northern Russia.
At the time, he admitted: ‘In general I like killing people.’
Notorious Russian cannibal Yegor Komarov, 25, has killed his cellmate after he was sentenced to 19 years behind bars when officers found a headless body in the boot of his car following a road accident
Komarov (pictured) allegedly slit the throat of his cellmate by inflicting a razor blade wound to the 42-year-old’s neck, local law enforcement said
Police found the body of a headless man in his car boot after a car accident in Russia
He confessed to killing another man, aged 38, because he wanted to taste human flesh.
He said: ‘When he died, I gutted his neck and tasted the blood and meat.
‘But the meat was difficult to cut, as the knife was blunt, and I did not like the taste of his veins.’
He chewed the throat of one victim, and stabbed the other 20 times.
Last year there was speculation that Komarov was the cannibal who had been reported as joining Wagner private mercenary army to fight in Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
In fact, at the time, his trial had not been completed and it was another cannibal who was sent to the Russian president’s war.
Now footage has emerged of a masked Komarov’s chilling testimony when he initially denied he ate a man before admitting he had done so – ‘spontaneously’ – and felt no remorse.
Komarov confessed to killing another man, aged 38, because he wanted to taste human flesh
Now footage has emerged of a masked Komarov’s chilling testimony when he initially denied he ate a man before admitting he had done so – ‘spontaneously’ – and felt no remorse
Komarov was sentenced to 19 years in jail in a strict penal colony after the headless body of a businessman fell out of his car boot when he crashed his Mitsubishi into a road safety barrier in Sortavala, in northern Russia
He was asked by a state investigator: ‘Did you really eat a man?’
He replied: ‘No, I didn’t eat a man. It’s heavy, it’s just just bones. I’m so skinny, how could I eat a man?’
‘Some part of it?’ the investigator asked.
Komarov responded: ‘Well, yes.’
‘Are you ready to eat a man again?’ he was asked.
Komarov said: ‘Do you have one?’
The investigator asked: ‘Why did you eat a man?’
The cannibal replied: ‘Just to try. I didn’t eat just one bite.’
The investigator asked: ‘How did you get the urge?’
‘Spontaneously.’
On killing and eating the businessman he said: ‘I mean, I’m sorry, but I’m not remorseful.’
When asked to explain, he just replied: ‘You know.’
Before disposing of his 38-year-old victim in a St Petersburg park, Komarov told how he sliced off the man’s tongue, took it home and cooked it with butter.
‘I tried it, but I didn’t like it,’ he said.
‘But I probably would have liked another part of the body.’
Komarov was born in Putin’s home city of St Petersburg and lived with his parents and grandparents in a communal flat
He was born in Putin’s home city of St Petersburg and lived with his parents and grandparents in a communal flat.
His social media said he was interested in ‘anarcho-primitivism’ and the ‘elixirs of immortality’, as well as psychedelic music.
His alleged latest killing came when he was in a pre-trial detention centre appealing his 19 year jail term imposed in late June this year.
Reports that he had joined Wagner came in September 2022.
Under Russia’s laws, murderers, rapists, cannibals and other hardened criminals can only take part in the war once they have been convicted and sentenced.