Brain-eating lover murdered his girlfriend and ate her brain said ‘I liked the taste of her brain’

Dmitry Luchin, 21, killed his girlfriend Olga Budunova, 45, by hitting a wine bottle over her head 25 times before dismembering her body with a meat cleaver.

Luchin smashed his girlfriend over the head repeatedly with a wine bottle before eating her.

He tore out her insides, roasted her brain and ate it while drinking her blood.

Speaking to police about the murder, he said: ‘I liked the taste of her brain. I decided to give it another try. Then I drained some of her blood into a glass.’

He carried out the murder in his victim’s flat where they were planning to have drinks together to mark International Women’s Day.

Witness Alexandra Dedova, 21, said that there was a sign of the devil on the door that he had painted using blood from her cracked skull. She said: ‘He wanted to summon the devil. He waited for 5 minutes but the devil did not appear…  ‘Next he took the meat cleaver and smashed her skull to the brain. He cut pieces out of her brain. He roasted and ate them. ‘He liked it. He ate another piece, he said. Then poured a glass of her blood and drank.’ Prosecutor Olga Bondarenko said: ‘Next he cut out her stomach, and chopped off her ears. One he put into her mouth, the other into the cat’s bowl.’

Luchin had appealed for the trial to be held behind closed doors but the judge refused. The court heard that Luchin was sane and fit to stand trial for the ‘ritualistic, cannibalistic murder’.

He was found to have ‘the intelligence of a philosopher’, and told police he carried out the killing to ‘get inspiration to write poetry’.

He subscribed to an online site called ‘World of maniacs and serial killers’, say prosecutors. Luchin faces a life sentence if convicted of murder and the desecration of the dead.