A 34-year-old man from Sitiawan in Perak, believed to have been high on drugs, severed, cooked and ate his own penis, local media reported today.

The man, who was previously diagnosed as mentally unstable, is said to have done so after having taken drugs and awoke in the middle of the night hearing voices telling him to do so.

"The man then wrapped his penis in a piece of cloth, burnt and ate it," a police spokesman was quoted as saying by the Bernama news agency.