From fraudster to divorcee to eunuch maker: The makings of mastermind behind ‘human butchery’ enterprise
by Tara Cobham
May 11, 2024
3 minutes
A fraudster whose marriage broke down spiralled into a gruesome, lucrative addiction to extreme body modifications that has now ended in him being jailed for life.
Marius Gustavson, who already had two previous fraud convictions in his native Norway, descended into a subculture centred around male castration, penis removal and other grisly procedures as he sought “empowerment” at the end of his 11-year marriage in 2016.
Five years on, a court heard, the 46-year-old had become the mastermind of a “large scale” and “extremely dangerous” enterprise, involving the
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