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A convicted killer living out his remaining days in a Russian penal colony has spoken about how he ate human flesh for the first time after killing and dismembering a man.

Vladimir Nikolayevich Nikolayev, 63, also known as 'Vladimir the Cannibal' was convicted of killing two men in Novocheboksarsk in 1997.He was sentenced to death but had it commuted to life behind bars after Russia abolished the death penalty in 1999.

In 2001 he was transferred to the notorious K-6 Black Dolphin Prison near the border with Kazakhstan where inmates are kept in isolated cells and are not permitted to rest or sit on their bunks during waking hours.