A former winner of Mr Gay UK stabbed his former lover to death before carving a strip of meat from his thigh in order to cook and eat it, a court has heard.
Chef Anthony Morley, 36, cut a 20cm strip of flesh from the thigh of his former lover, Damien Oldfield.
The court was told the 36-year-old seasoned the flesh and fried it in olive oil before trying to eat part of it.
Morley, the first ever Mr Gay UK winner in 1993, allegedly stabbed Mr Oldfield dozens of times in his throat,chest and thigh and 19 times in the back before walking to a kebab shop in a blood-spattered dressing gown.
He allegedly told staff there he had killed someone in a violent struggle at his home.
“He said, 'I have killed someone, call the police'," prosecutor Andrew Stubbs QC told Leeds Crown Court.
“Someone tried to rape me so I killed that person. What have I done?”
Police then went to Morley's home in Leeds where they found Mr Oldfield's body naked on the bedroom floor.
However Mr Stubbs said there were no signs of a struggle and that "sexual activity" had taken place.
Mr Oldfield, 33, worked at gay magazine Bent and was a former lover of Morley.
Morley, who also had relationships with women and struggled with his sexuality has denied murder, but has admitted to cutting Mr Oldfield throat and "cooking and sampling a section" of his body.
Morley's barrister Robert Smith QC says his client is at least guilty of manslaughter, but said provocation and abnormality of mind had played a part in Mr Oldfield's death.
The hearing continues.
