Cannibal sliced off parts of grandmother and ate them while she was still alive

Yep, you guessed it ... he's a 'devout christian'

A man has been arrested for slicing off and eating parts of his gran - while she was still alive. The 26-year-old Ukranian, named only as Vlad, used a shard of broken mirror to slash the face of the woman who had raised him.

Police sources said he then gouged out her eyeballs and ate them. One insider said: "All this time, the old woman was conscious and tried to escape, screaming. He responded by slicing off her tongue - and eating this as well."

The killer's dad broke in to the flat, in Simferopol, and found his mother dead, her skull smashed. Her ears and lips were also apparently eaten. The alleged killer, described by neighbors as a religious fanatic, was in his underpants, holding a cross and conducting a perverse funeral service.

His grandad reportedly removed all knives from the flat earlier in the day, fearing he'd use them. Local police chief Olga Kondrashova said: "A man aged 26 was arrested on suspicion of murder. It was committed with particular cruelty."