New York 'Cannibal Cop' case: British nurse held

A British nurse has been arrested in connection with New York’s “Cannibal Cop” case, it was reported today.

Dale Bolinger was held at his Canterbury home with another man following a tip-off from police in the US investigating Gilberto Valle, on trial for plotting to kill and eat women, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Kent police have been asked to look for a person who acted as a “mentor” to Valle by being in online contact during last summer discussing ways to carry out disgusting attacks and claiming to have eaten two women in the past

Bolinger, 57, a father-of-two, was suspended from his job by East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust after the arrest last Thursday. His wife, Rosemary Bolinger, 55, who told the newspaper she is separated from him and has not seen him for a year, is a prominent campaigner for cerebral palsy sufferers.

A Kent Police spokesman said: “Two men aged 57 and 30 from the Canterbury area were arrested on Feb 21 for conspiracy offences,grooming and the possession of child abuse images. The two men are currently on police bail while inquiries continue. The Kent Police have been in touch with law enforcement authorities in the United States in relation to this investigation.”

She confirmed that the arrests were in connection with the Valle case.

Valle was in regular contact with a British contact who used the aliases MeatMarketMan and Moody Blues, a New York court heard, who urged him to eat his victims alive, saying: “I think of it as eating her to death.”

Moody Blues wrote: “The meat isn’t quite like pork, but very meaty… I’ve eaten a black woman and a white person.”

He claimed to have a recipe for “haggis” using human lungs and stomach, and said feet were “a favourite” delicacy.

New York policeman Valle, 28, who met Moody Blues through an extreme sexual fetish website, said he was “dying to taste some girl meat”.

Valle denies charges of conspiracy to kidnap and improper use of a federal database system, after he allegedly used a police computer to research potential “victims”.