Devastated father says his 25-year-old son was murdered then eaten by a cannibal during prison mutiny
Juan Carlos Herrera Jr had been jailed for robbery in 2015 but was killed and eaten in month-long prison riots, his father has claimed
A MAN who was jailed for robbery has been killed and eaten during a a prison mutiny.
Juan Carlos Herrera said his son, Juan Carlos Herrera Jr, had been beaten, hanged and dismembered before being eaten in the month-long siege at the Tachira Detention Centre in Venezuela.
The devastated father told : "One of those who were with him when he was murdered saw everything that happened.
"My son and two others were taken by 40 people, stabbed, hanged to bleed, and then Dorancel butchered them to feed all detainees."
Dorancel Vargas, who is known as the Hannibal Lecter of the Andes, is a serial killer and cannibal who was imprisoned for hunting people in a park.
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Herrera said other prisoners were made to eat the flesh of those murdered during the siege.
He said: "The [inmate] with whom I spoke to told me that he was beaten with a hammer [in order] to force him to eat the remains of the two boys."
He said that others would have their fingers cut off or their legs broken, even hit over the head with hammers.
The shocking claim was revealed on October 10, with Herrera telling local media he had made the gruesome discovery when he went to visit the prison.
The mutiny in the prison started earlier this year with prison guards finally able to re-enter the facility - finding Juan Carlos Herrera Jr and one other inmate unaccounted for.
The mutiny is understood to have broken out when the prisoners began to protest overcrowded conditions.
The reported that the serial killer allegedly behind the stomach-churning murders in jail had a speciality of making dumplings out of his victims, preferably stuffed with their muscles.
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