Tyree Smith, known as the Connecticut Cannibal, brutally murdered and cannibalised a homeless man but has now been released from prison.

Angel Gonzalez was killed in 2011 in the US state. Smith then consumed parts of his victim’s body in a cemetery after slaughtering him with a hatchet.

The day before the gruesome act, he visited his cousin Nicole Rabb’s house, ranting about Greek gods and expressing his desire to get “blood on his hands”. The following day, he arrived at her home covered in blood, recounting how he had eaten his victim’s organs while drinking Japanese rice wine sake.

He chillingly told her that Mr Gonzalez’s eye “tasted like an oyster” and that he had bludgeoned his face and head with an axe. The mutilated body was discovered in a vacant flat in the city of Bridgeport in January 2012.

Smith, who was found not guilty of murder due to insanity, was committed to Whiting Forensic Hospital for 60 years in 2013. However, earlier this year, the state’s Psychiatric Security Review Board granted Smith conditional release from the hospital.

This decision came after hearing from a psychiatrist who stated that Smith’s schizophrenia and alcohol and drug disorders were in full remission thanks to medication and other treatment, reports <a href=”https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/cannibal-who-butchered-homeless-man-36265233″ rel=”Follow” target=”_self”>the Mirror</a>.

He was placed in a community setting under supervision with strict conditions, including continuing treatment.

Forensic psychiatrist Caren Teitelbaum previously told US news outlet WTNH: “To quote the director there, he is a joy. He is considered a support to the other people there. Once he was stable, he was a really calming presence for other patients.

“He has maintained clinical stability. Adhered to the medications and continued to engage in group and substance abuse treatment”.

Nevertheless, prison records secured by the outlet from the Connecticut Department of Correction reveal multiple clashes Smith had with fellow inmates.

Following one alleged incident at the Garner Correctional Facility, he required separation from the general population and informed an officer that another prisoner had “talked trash to him”.

Talitha Frazier, Gonzalez’s sister-in-law, considers him to remain a “menace to society”.

She said: “It angers me, and it shocks me, because the whole time you’re in jail, you’re pleading insanity but yet you’re still doing something violent to another person.”

Smith expressed remorse for Angel’s death in court days before he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He expressed: “I’m really sorry for what I did, that I couldn’t be myself. It really had nothing to do with the other person.”

Talitha was moved to tears during his court appearance and was surprised by his remorse.

She shared with the Connecticut Post: “We waited two years to hear Tyree say he was sorry,’ she said to the Connecticut Post. What he said today caught me off-guard, but I feel he meant what he said.”