A regional court in Berlin, Germany, has sentenced to less than four years in jail a German sales man who was found guilty of hacking, slicing up, and then cooking the head of a bank clerk during a sex game gone wrong.

Michael Schneider, 45, left the head of Carsten Schmidt, 37, in a stewpot on the stove and then wrapped the boy in baking foil and paper, in what police described as similar to a horror show.

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Records at the Berlin Regional Court showed that the brutal killing that shocked Germany occurred in the victim's apartment in Marienfelde, which is located south of Berlin, in January 2012, but the sentence was handed down just recently.

Police said the victim invited Schneider to his apartment for sex and added that the two men knew one another. Schmidt was openly gay, the German Herald reported

The defense claimed it was Schmidt who asked the defendant to tie him in bed and then cover his mouth with tape. The act left the victim suffocated, court records showed.

Apparently shocked at the sudden death of the victim, Schneider reportedly cut up Schmidt's corpse and then placed the head in a stewpot.

A police officer testified that the victim’s body was hacked, sawed and sliced and then kept in the different parts of the house.

The prosecutors told the court that the suspect should have been jailed to six years for man slaughter but the defense team argued that the suspect should be considered guilty of bodily harm resulting in death, a lighter offense.

The defense team succeeded in convincing the court that the defendant was just a tool in the death of the victim and that it was the victim who wanted to die.

German netizens immediately lashed at the court for handing down what it described as a “light penalty” for a heinous crime.

In 2006, Armin Meiwes was arrested by German police for killing a computer engineer and then eating his flesh.