Pulp Singer in Bizarre Link to German Cannibal

Notorious German man-eater Armin Meiwes developed his taste for human flesh partly because of the fashion dictates of his tyrannical mum, according to press reports.

"In the early 70s, when his school friends were wearing jeans, she insisted that he carry on wearing traditional lederhosen shorts," the Standard revealed.

"Meiwes was to recall later that he began creating his cannibal fantasies during his adolescence when he and his Mother lived alone (his father deserted the family home when Meiwes was 8)."

In a bizarre coincidence, the Standard's revelations struck a chilling chord with the childhood experiences of Jarvis Cocker, who grew up to become the notoriously zany frontman of Pulp.

"His mother brought him and his sister up alone, emptying fruit machines to get by, after their father went off to Australia when Jarvis was seven," The Guardian revealed in 1999.

"She also made him wear lederhosen to school."
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