A French prisoner has confessed to murdering his cellmate and then eating part of his body.
Nicolas Cocaigne - who was charged with cannibalism in addition to murder - said he punched his victim, stabbed him with scissors and suffocated him with a plastic bag before tearing out his heart and eating it, according to the prosecutor's office in Rouen.
An autopsy of the victim's body later revealed two chest muscles and part of his left lung - not his heart - were missing, the office said.
"The absence of these two anatomical elements, which were not found at the crime scene, make the presumed killer's confession of cannibalism very likely true," Rouen prosecutor Joseph Schmit said.
Thierry Baudry's mutilated body was found Wednesday morning by a guard at the prison, in the northern city of Rouen.
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