By Martin Robinson The 'Canterbury Cannibal' Dale Bolinger was an idol to a worldwide network of men obsessed with the rape, murder and the 'eating to death' of women. But his obsession with consuming human flesh and death started as a six-year-old and may have been strengthened by the death of his son, Martin, as a one-year-old baby. The 57-year-old, who was today found guilty of grooming a girl for sex online, told his trial that his fetish was also driven by anger towards his domineering mother, who made drunken passes at him while he was a teenager. The father-of-four, who was married for more than 30 years, had a secret double life as 'meatmarketman', a stalwart user of the sinister Dark Fetish Network where he got pleasure from fantasising about the most sickening crimes.
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Dale Bolinger, 57, GUILTY of grooming a girl he thought was 14 online
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Male nurse's obsession with death started as a six-year-old
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Father-of-four had secret double life on the sinister Dark Fetish Network
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His closest confident was 'Cannibal Cop' Gilberto Valle
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Valle was convicted of plotting to kidnap kill and eat women, but verdict was overturned as federal judge believed it was merely 'role-play'
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Bolinger boasted online he had eaten the 'sweet' flesh of a woman and child
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During Valle's trial FBI agents alerted British police to internet exchanges
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When arrested Bolinger said these claims were 'jokes' and a fantasy'
Haunting:  @placeholder sent this selfie showing him posing with an axe which to a 14-year-old he wanted to have sex with, kill and eat