Guilty, Dr Evil tattooist who cut off an ear

A TATTOOIST who called himself ‘Dr Evil’ has admitted causing grievous bodily harm to three customers by carrying out a tongue-splitting procedure and removing an ear and a nipple.

Brendan McCarthy, 50, changed his pleas to guilty yesterday after a two-year legal saga in which he unsuccessfully claimed having his clients’ consent gave him a defence. McCarthy, pictured, from Bushbury, Wolverhampton, denied six counts relating to the procedures in 2017, but it was ruled he could not use his clients’ written consent as a defence.

McCarthy, who ran Dr Evil’s Body Modification Emporium, took his case to the Court of Appeal, where it was rejected by judges who ruled his modifications were ‘medical procedures for no medical reason’ and were not comparable to tattoos or piercings. But they accepted the ear removal had been well done.

He will be sentenced on March 21.