Man charged with killing landlord over disputed chess move

An Italian man was charged Monday in Dublin with killing and mutilating his Irish landlord in an alleged argument over a chess game.

Police said Saverio Bellante, 34, admitted his guilt after being arrested Sunday at the home he shared with Tom O’Gorman, a policy researcher for a conservative Catholic think-tank in Ireland. Pathologists said the 39-year-old victim suffered dozens of knife wounds to his head and chest so severe that a lung was missing.

Mr. Bellante called police to report the killing. He claimed to officers that he had cut open Mr. O’Gorman’s chest and tried to eat his heart after a dispute over a move in a chess match the two had been playing.

Mr. Bellante offered no plea at his arraignment Monday in a Dublin court. When Judge David McHugh asked him why he had no lawyers, Mr. Bellante said he wanted to represent himself and would decline state-funded legal aid.

Of course the cannibal chess master will represent himself. I would expect nothing less.

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