WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT: The suspect is being investigated on suspicion of desecrating corpses after police allegedly found a human face, bones and even a heart inside a preserving jar

A rare 'cannibal' solar storm is set to hit Earth and could result in a spectacular Northern Lights display across the UK - here's everything you need to know about the aurora borealis phenomenon

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Satanist Gregory Scott Hale became one of Illinois' most notorious killers after he lured a woman to his home before killing, dismembering an eating her in scenes that shocked detectives at the time

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Loner Tsutomu Miyazaki murdered four young girls, all aged seven and under, but blamed his horrific actions on an alter-ego called 'the Rat Man'

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: James Sligo Jameson reportedly had a disturbing interest in cannibalism when he joined a rescue mission in Central Africa, which ended in tragedy

WARING: DISTRESSING CONTENT James Sligo Jameson was heir to the Jameson Irish Whiskey fortune and joined Henry Morton Stanley's Congo expedition where witnesses claimed he gave handkerchiefs to see a child killed and eaten

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Renee Hartevelt was a warm and caring Dutch exchange student who was murdered, raped and cannibalised by her Japanese classmate Issei Sagawa in Paris

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Issei Sagawa made a career out of his crime once back in his native Japan and declared he couldn't comprehend why 'others didn't want to eat people'

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: When Bernd Brandes responded to Armin Meiwes' advertisement called 'Dinner - or your dinner', a stomach-churning turn of events unfolded

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Bernd Brandes agreed to be killed and eaten by Meiwes in return for cutting off and eating his penis, in a deal which would horrify and confuse even the most seasoned criminal investigators

The Silence of the Lambs' most terrifying villains were inspired by real killers including one little-known Mexican 'doctor' who was in jail for a 'crime of passion'.