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The court in Dresden, which was started on Friday, heard how Detlev Guenzel, who worked as a police handwriting expert, met his victim, Wojciech Stempniewicz, online.
Prosecutors say the 56-year-old policeman is accused of strangling, dismembering and burying the victim’s body parts in the garden of his bed-and-breakfast in the Erz Mountains in eastern Germany last November.
"He killed and dismembered him to get sexual stimulation and then later to get sexual stimulation by watching the video he made," Dresden chief prosecutor Andreas Feron said.
Guenzel faces a possible 15 years in prison if he is found guilty of murdering the 59-year-old businessman from Hannover and "disturbing the peace of the dead."
The police officer denies murder charges and claims that the victim killed himself. His defense team also argued that Stempniewicz, who had long expressed a death wish, hanged himself.
"In our eyes, and in the eyes of our client, it is about a suicide," defense lawyer, Endrik Wilhelm, said.
-SSM/SS/SL
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