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Mastermind of Eunuch Maker ‘human butchery’ enterprise jailed for life

Source: PA Media

The mastermind of a lucrative extreme body modifications enterprise who cooked human testicles to eat in a salad has been jailed for life.

Marius Gustavson and his acolytes carried out male castration, penis removal and other “grisly” procedures on an unprecedented scale, the Old Bailey heard.

Procedures were videoed and posted on Gustavson’s Eunuch Maker website which netted him more than £300,000 between 2017 and 2021.

On one occasion when Gustavson cooked “what appeared to be human testicles which are then plated to be eaten” and kept other body parts as “trophies”, Judge Mark Lucraft KC said.

Gustavson, 46, of Haringey, north London, admitted charges including conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.

On Thursday Judge Lucraft sentenced him to life with a minimum

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