As mentioned previously, a local police inspector believed that the Ali brothers were addicted to eating human flesh. It certainly seems that they weren’t able to stay on the wagon particularly long; in April 2014, just a few years after their release from prison for their first (known) acts of cannibalism, the brothers were arrested for the same crime again. This time, their crime was even more gruesome: As CNN reports, the victim of their cannibalism was not an adult woman, but an infant. Further still, the smell was so bad that the neighbors took an interest.
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In fact, according to BBC News, it was that smell that allowed the government to pin additional charges on the men. Specifically, because of the smell and the fear it instilled in the neighbors, authorities were able to charge them with spreading fear and damaging property, both under Pakistan’s anti-terrorism laws. At the time, however, Pakistan still hadn’t made cannibalism a crime. This time, they were both sentenced to 12 years in prison.
