Satanist killer who butchered friend in coffin to drink his blood is back in court charged with plotting to kill his ex-wife
Daniel Ruda was accused of planning a hit on his ex Manuela at a court in Bochum, Germany
A SATANIC killer who butchered his friend to drink his blood together with his devil worshipping bride has been charged with plotting to kill his ex-wife today.
German Daniel Ruda is still in jail 16 years after the grotesque ritualistic killing, which took place on top of a coffin.
Ruda, who filed his teeth to razor sharpness to make himself look like a vampire when he was sentenced, was accused at a court in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, of planning a hit on his ex, Manuela, who divorced him while behind bars.
Ruda, who was 26 when he was sent down, described the accusation as "nonsense" and "grotesque and untrue".
According to prosecutors he tried to hire a woman he met through contact advertisements in 2012 to carry out the plan.
But for the first time since the 41-year-old and Manuela were sentenced in 2002, he admitted the "Satanic sacrifice" of Frank Hackert at the home they shared in Bochum in 2001.
She shared in the blood-drinking ritual after Frank, a baker, was stabbed 66 times on a coffin they used as a coffee table.
Ruda was sentenced to 15 years in jail for killing Frank, 33.
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The court at their original sentencing heard that the couple spent holidays in England and Scotland, sleeping in graveyards and attending devil-worship parties.
Manuela was sentenced to 13 years for her role and has since been freed from a psychiatric unit but is still receiving treatment.
She has been given a new identity and has no further contact with Ruda.
Ruda, who works as a librarian at a prison near Dortmund, petitioned last year to be allowed to rejoin society.
His lawyer Hans Reinhardt said at the time: "We want to show that he is not a dangerous man. In jail he takes no drugs, drinks no alcohol.
"His mother, who is 75, visits him regularly. She has only one wish - to see her son free before she dies.
"He wants to rejoin society, find a wife, settle down and have a family."
But Doris Hackert, mother of the dead man, said: "I hope they don't let him out. I am not well.
"I am mentally shattered. I cry a lot.
"It would be a nightmare for me if they let him out."
The couple said they had chosen their victim for sacrifice because he was "so funny and would be the perfect court jester for Satan".
The prosecution alleges Ruda was angry and upset at Manuela both leaving him and getting out of jail before him.
A court spokesman said: "The plan was seemingly for the woman he contacted to get a job in the kitchens of the psychiatric unit where his ex-wife was and to kill her there out of revenge."
But she went to the police instead, leading Ruda back into the dock on a charge of incitement to murder.
He insisted: "There was no contract to murder. The prosecution has acted with blind zeal."
But a fellow prisoner is due to give evidence that he told him of the murder plot.
Ruda added: "It's a lie from someone who wants to make himself look important."
His lawyer branded the alleged hitwoman a fantasist.
If he is found not guilty he could be released soon - but a fresh conviction will mean as many as seven more years behind bars.
Earlier this month a mum was arrested on suspicion of burning her three-year-old son in an alleged satanic ritual.
Maria del Carmen Hernández Hernández, 42, was found on the roof of her house sitting in a rocking chair and holding her son José Alejandro Iracheta Hernández, who was totally burned.