A man calling himself "the eunuch maker" is facing years behind bars after carrying out castrations and uploading the footage online, earning himself more than £300,000.
Marius Gustavson carried out extreme body modifications, including the removal of penises, testicles and legs. The procedures were mainly carried out in Gustavson's flat in Haringay, north London, or at rented apartments and hotels.
The gruesome ops were uploaded to the 26-year-old Norwegian’s website which subscribers would pay to watch. He made nearly £300,000 over four years from the site’s 22,841 subscribers across the globe.
The eye-watering practice is linked to a subculture where men become 'nullos' - short for genital nullification, by having their penis and testicles removed. Prosecutor Caroline Carberry, KC, said: 'Gustavson set up a website on which he advertised extreme body modification services such as male castration and penis removal.
Damian Byrnes was jailed last year (PA)
Nathan Arnold admitted the partial removal of a nipple from Marius Gustavson (PA)“It is an incredible feature of this case the website operated in plain sight, not on the dark web, but accessible to anyone who stumbled upon it and had the inclination and the means to view the gruesome footage. This footage, which is extremely explicit, was uploaded.
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“Users could pay to subscribe or buy individual videos. There is evidence the victims were promised a sum of money from the video revenue. Gustavson recruited like-minded individuals to assist him in his large scale, dangerous and disturbing enterprise.
“He was a manipulator of victims, who were themselves vulnerable. It is impossible to know how many procedures took place in the years when the Eunuch Maker website was active. Gustavson was involved in a minimum of 30 procedures.”
Gustavson uses a wheelchair after his own leg was frozen and then amputated. He has also had his penis and nipple removed. He received £18,500 in disability benefit after forcing the NHS to amputate his left leg by putting it in dry ice for two hours.
Ashley Williams was part of the group
Janus Atkin also faces jailGustavson faces sentence alongside six other members of the body modification cult including Peter Wates, 67, Romanian Ion Ciucur, 30, and 61-year-old German Stefan Scharf. Also facing jail are former surgical assistant David Carruthers, 61, his boyfriend Ashley Williams, 32, and Janus Atkin, 39, all from South Wales.
Carruthers, who worked for Ceredigion and Mid Wales NHS trust from 1991 to 2002 as a 'domestic assistant' but has no medical qualifications, was involved in six procedures including four testicle removals. Atkin had studied veterinary medicine and was involved in eight procedures including a penis removal. Wates is a retired chemist and a former member of the Royal Society of Chemists and was involved in nine procedures. He was arrested at his home in Purley, Surrey on 2 February 2022.
Ciucur was involved in two procedures including a testicle clamping. Williams was involved in assisting his husband, Carruthers, to remove their friend Atkin's testicle. The couple both worked at the passport office in Wales.
Gustavson appeared in court via video-link from HMP Wandsworth as the Old Bailey cannot accommodate wheelchair using defendants. He admits conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm, five counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, possessing criminal property, namely money and making and distributing two indecent videos of a child between January 2017 and January 2020. He also admits possessing extreme pornographic images, and three counts of possessing pseudo-photographs of a child.
Wates admits conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm. Ciucur, who works in a hotel in Gretna Green, Scotland, admits conspiracy to cause GBH with intent in relation to two modifications. Williams admits causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Atkin at his home in Newport, south Wales, on 7 November 2017. Carruthers and Atkin admit conspiracy to commit bodily harm. Scharf admits causing grievous bodily harm with intent by taking part in a single procedure by removing a testicle in an apartment in Camden in July 2019.
Former nurse Nathaniel Arnold, 49, Jacob Crimi-Appleby, 23, and male prostitute Damien Byrnes, 36, all admitted removing body parts from Gustavson and were jailed last year.
Crimi-Appleby, who had a sexual relationship with Gustavson after meeting him aged 17, froze his leg causing it to require amputation, Byrnes removed his penis with a vegetable knife while Arnold partially removed his nipple with a scalpel.
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Byrnes was earlier jailed for five years, Crimi-Appleby for three years and eight months while Arnold was given a two year suspended sentence.
The hearing continues.
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