A crazed cannibal who ate the brain of one his victims, murdered a fellow Broadmoor patient and planned to eat him too, an inquest heard yesterday.
Peter Bryan, who called himself “Peckish Pete”, throttled Richard Loudwell with a ligature and smashed his head against the floor as other patients sang Lazy Sunday by the Small Faces - allegedly to mask the noise, a nurse told the inquest.
When staff eventually found 60-year-old Loudwell lying critically injured, Bryan, 40, said he would have liked to eat him if he had had more time, the inquest heard. Loudwell died six weeks later.
The gruesome story of the man described as a real-life Hannibal Lecter was told yesterday at a Berkshire coroner’s court.
Bryan, a schizophrenic, spent eight years in Rampton Hospital for battering to death 21-year-old Nisha Sheth in 1993.
But a month after being released into “low support accommodation”, he killed a friend, Brian Cherry. He dismembered his body and cooked his brain in butter, telling police it was “really nice”.
After a spell in prison, Bryan was admitted to Broadmoor in April 2004. He killed Loudwell just ten days later.
A series of official inquiries have since been held. The inquest is expected to last two weeks. - Daily Mail