A man and his two sons have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a neighbor and then eating parts of his body after he tripped over a woman relative at a dance, Philippine police said on Tuesday. The three men are suspected of stabbing neighbor Benjie Ganoy to death last month in a remote village in the southwestern island of Palawan. They ate his ears, tongue and arms after roasting the body over a fire, provincial police chief Michael Garraez said. "They stabbed him repeatedly, cut off the man's ears, pulled out his tongue and ate it," Garraez told Reuters by telephone. He was quoting a sworn statement by a witness, who said he had been forced to eat some flesh taken from the victim's arms. Garraez said there was no tradition of cannibalism in the area.
| "It's not a tradition, really, just a hobby" |
He said the father had apparently been angry after Ganoy accidentally tripped over his daughter during a dance party.
| Guess "I'm sorry" just wasn't enough. |
| It was the fact that he impregnated her when he tripped that was the problem. |
Police said the victim disappeared after the dance party on July 17. The witness led them to the burned body almost a week later. |