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Cannibal ‘eunuch maker’ given life
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 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.
Yesterday Judge Lucraft sentenced him to life with a minimum term of 22 years.
Six other men received jail terms of between four-and-a-half years and 12 years for their part in the plot.
Judge Lucraft said: “Gustavson, on the evidence you are very much the mastermind behind this grisly and gruesome enterprise.
“Like-minded individuals were recruited by you, Gustavson, to assist in what became a large-scale, dangerous, and extremely disturbing enterprise.
“The procedures were conducted in amateur and dangerous ways: in some instances it is little more than human butchery.
“Some procedures were overtly sexual or had clear sexual overtones. Many procedures clearly caused great distress and some resulted in the need for immediate emergency medical treatment.”
He added: “I am entirely satisfied that the motivation of all those involved were a mix of sexual gratification as well as financial reward.”
Extreme body modification is linked to a subculture where men become “nullos”, short for genital nullification, by having their penis and testicles removed.
Previously, prosecutor Caroline Carberry KC said Gustavson was linked to at least 29 procedures.
After one of them, Gustavson cooked severed testicles for lunch which he ate in a salad he had prepared for himself, she said.
Gustavson was arrested after he used a red-hot iron to brand a man’s calf with the letters EM – for Eunuch Maker.
The police investigation led to the arrest of 10 men in London, Scotland and South Wales.