Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 73

BA man arrested in £13m drug By Justin Davenport Crime Correspondent A SENIOR British Airways employee has been arrested in connection with a £13 million international cocaine smuggling plot The man a senior employee in engineering department was held in a raid by 100 police at Heathrow airport last night Officers raided a number of addresses near the airport after a long-running joint police and Customs operation He and five others all described as key players were arrested in connection with a sophisticated operation to smuggle cocaine on BA flights from around the world The man described as a senior engineer in the engineering department allegedly collected cocaine packages from drug couriers on the flights and used his airline pass to evade security He worked in Terminal Four but because of his seniority had access to all Continued on Page 5 Top-up fees revolt grows THE Labour rebellion over university top-up fees gathered pace today with more than 150 MPs saying they would vote against the plan Tony Blair has staked his leadership on the reform Full story: Page 2 Volunteer found on net to be carved By Allan Hall in Kassel Germany A SELF-PROCLAIMED cannibal went on trial today accused of murdering and then eating a man Armin Meiwes 42 killed computer expert Bemd Jurgen Brandes after advertising on the internet for someone willing to be eaten Mr Brandes was stabbed in the throat carved up and eaten in front of a running video camera Meiwes today told a court in Kassel Germany he does not dispute killing and consuming Mr Brandes 43 but that he was in his suicide Cannibalism is not a crime in Germany He said his fantasy was devouring a man who looked a character in the Seventies TV series Flipper Mr Brandes had travelled to farmhouse in Rotenburg near Kassel where the accused cut off his penis which they partially ate together Then computer technician Meiwes stabbed him cut up the body ate some of the flesh stored some more in a freezer for later consumption and buried bones and a skull in his garden The whole event was recorded on video again with the apparent agreement of Mr Brandes Prosecutors said that despite Mr apparent death wish Meiwes is guilty of murder for sexual satisfaction and Continued on Page 2 Fantasy: Armin Meiwes says he was inspired by zombie films to eat humans.