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Man ate parts of decapitated girlfriend

SKOVDE, Sweden, March 9 (UPI) -- A court in Sweden has convicted a 32-year-old man of murder for decapitating his girlfriend last year and then eating parts of her body.

Isakin Jonsson, dubbed The Skara Cannibal, was found to suffer from severe mental illness, the Swedish news agency TT reported.

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The court ordered him placed in a psychiatric institution and said he must pay the victim's family $11,700 in compensation.

Jonsson was arrested in November after calling police in central Sweden to say that he had killed his 40-year-old girlfriend.

During his trial he told the court "there was no motive whatsoever" for the slaying.

"I remember how I slit her throat. Then I went to the kitchen and started cooking," Jonsson said.

The call Jonsson made to emergency services in which he confessed to the crime was played in court.

The name of his slain girlfriend has not been made public.

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