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A worker at a Scottish hotel has admitted to participating in an extreme body modification plot in which surgeries, including castrations, were carried out and streamed to paying subscribers on a website called Eunuch Maker.
Ion Ciucur, 28, a Romanian national living in London, is standing trial with eight alleged co-conspirators who prosecutors say engaged in up to 29 incidents of extreme body modifications on 13 victims who had various body parts removed including through “castration by clamping,” according to BBC.
The alleged conspiracy is said to involve a ghoulish subculture in which healthy body parts, often the genitals, are either surgically removed, or damaged to the point where medical intervention is required, usually involving amputation by a physician.
The defendants are all alleged to belong to the bizarre collective in which men voluntarily have their penis and testicles removed to become what adherents call “nullos,” as in genital “nullification.”
Footage of the grisly procedures was allegedly broadcast on a paid subscriber website called Eunuch Maker, operated by Norway-born North London resident Marius Gustavson, 45, the alleged conspiracy ringleader, who is said to have generated around $246,000 for group members from the broadcasts over the six-year plot, CBS reported earlier this year.
Gustavson, who uses a wheelchair due to his own amputation, told the Irish Independent newspaper in a February 2022 interview that he willingly had his leg, penis and part of his nipple removed by the group because he wanted to “look like a Ken doll down there.”
He also told the paper that he had performed similar “nullifications” on 58 other men, and that he stored the excised genitals in his freezer or preserved in alcohol.
Gustavson is facing allegations that he removed a man’s penis, clamped the testicles of another and froze a man’s leg until it had to be amputated, CBS writes. He’s also been charged with making and distributing an indecent image of a child.
Appearing at the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court in London Thursday, Ciucur, who is purportedly a part of Gustavson’s inner circle, admitted to conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm stemming from two alleged castrations in July 2019.
Others standing trial for their alleged roles in the plot include Nurse Nathan Arnold, 48, who admitted to removing a portion of Gustavson’s nipple, stealing anesthetic from the hospital where he worked for the procedure, and “possessing extreme pornography,” The Guardian writes.
Also charged was Damien Byrnes, 35, who is said to have removed Gustavson’s penis. Another alleged participant in the bizarre scheme is Jacob Crimi-Appleby, 22, who is accused of freezing Gustavson’s leg until it required amputation.
Ashley Williams, 31, admitted to removing a man’s testicle, while Peter Wates, 66, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm over a period between Jan. 1, 2016, and Jan. 1, 2022.
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