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French prisoner killed cellmate,ate his lung

London: In a gruesome incident,a French prisoner allegedly killed his cellmate and then sliced open his chest with a razor blade to remove and eat his heart,a court was told. But,the man allegedly removed the wrong organ and ate his lung by mistake,a media report said. Thirty-nine-year-old Nicolas Cocaign appeared in court in the northern city of Rouen for allegedly killing Thierry Baudry in January 2007 by punching and kicking him,stabbing him with a pair of scissors and suffocating him with a rubbish bag. Cocaign then allegedly sliced open Baudrys chest with a razor blade,removed a rib and pulled out his lung,The Daily Telegraph reported. He is accused of eating part of the lung raw and then frying the rest of it with some onions on a makeshift cooker in the cell in the Rouen prison.