MAN who claimed to have feasted on human flesh as a child has today been jailed for life after drinking the blood of a former housemate he brutally slaughtered almost six years ago

MAN who claimed to have feasted on human flesh as a child has today been jailed for life after drinking the blood of a former housemate he brutally slaughtered almost six years ago, a jury has been told.

A Brisbane Supreme Court jury deliberated a day before this morning finding Robert Ian Logan, 23, guilty of the murder of former housemate Benjamin Peter Huntingford at his Adelaide Circuit home in Beenleigh, 35km south of Brisbane, on June 21, 2006.

Logan, affected by drugs, alcohol or both, murdered Huntingford and twice stabbed his pet dog "Butch" in a brutal and ferocious attack, several weeks after leaving their shared accommodation after a heated argument.

During a two-week trial Mr Huntingford's father, Peter Huntingford, testified Logan was renowned for telling "bizarre stories'' and once spoke of travelling to New Zealand as a child and eating human flesh with cannibals.



The jury, which retired to consider its verdict about 11am Friday, returned at 10.59am today, with the jury spokeswoman declaring: "We (the jury) find the defendant (Logan) guilty of murder.''

Members of Mr Huntingford's family gasped and cheered quietly, with several supporters pumping their fists into the air, in the gallery of Court 10, while family and supporters of Logan gasped in surprise and choked back tears.

Logan himself stood in the dock stunned, shaking his head in disbelief, at one stage looked toward his lawyers and said: "I don't understand.''

Prosecutor Michael Byrne, SC, asked Acting Justice Julie Dick, SC, to sentence Logan immediately.

Barrister Don MacKenzie, for Logan, said: "There is very little to say.''

Judge Dick, in sentencing Logan, told him: "You will know there is only one sentence I can impose.''

"You are sentenced to prison for life.''

Judge Dick, in reference to a victim impact statement from Mr Huntingford's family, said she hoped Logan himself had read it.

"I hope that you have read that (victim impact statement) ... to see what you have done to this family (of Mr Huntingford).''

During the trial the jury heard evidence Logan consumed various drugs, including heroin, speed, crack and marijuana, while residing at the property and that there was some "bad blood'' between his two housemates over the "thrashing'' of a recently purchased motorcycle.

The Crown revealed Mr Huntingford's corpse, with a pair of underpants placed over the head, was found by his housemate upon returning home from work about 6.15am.

Mr Huntingford's blood had been used to write an obscenity several times and "Where's M money'' on walls and a fridge at the blood soaked and stained house.

Police found the bloody handprint, which matched Mr Huntingford's DNA, of Logan on a door at the house and boot prints from a set of size 10 pair of "Blue Steel'' work boots belonging to Logan.

Mr Huntingford was said to have died from a "complex gaping wound'' to the neck that went from "ear to ear.''

Mr Huntingford received 19 significant injuries in the ferocious attack -- many of which are believed to have occurred after his death.

Those injuries included eight wounds to his almost "severed'' penis, injury to his anus and stab injuries that penetrated Mr Huntingford's heart, liver, spleen, a kidney and lung.

Logan told investigators his motivation for the killing was the result of an unwanted homosexual advance made by Mr Huntingford when they lived together.

"(Logan) asserted (to police) he drank some of the deceased man's blood,'' Mr Byrne said.