The grotesque nature of his crimes, and his motives for doing so, earned Sumanto the reputation of being Indonesia’s very own Hannibal Lecter. Following his release in 2006 and being ostracised ...

I believe that Hannibal Lecter is as close as you can come to the devil, to Satan. He’s the fallen angel. His motives are not banal reasons, like childhood abuse or junkie parents. It’s in his genes.

The Roman general Scipio and Carthaginian Hannibal dueled with each other during the last years of the third century B.C., the final phase of what we now know as the Second Punic War.