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Leader of body modification ring loses appeal against sentence
South Wales Echo
|May 01, 2025
THE leader of an extreme body modification ring, who once cooked human testicles to eat in a salad, has lost a challenge against his sentence at the Court of Appeal.
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Marius Gustavson, who also had his penis removed with a kitchen knife, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years last year for his role in the enterprise, which carried out male castration, penis removal and other procedures on people as young as 16.
This story is from the May 01, 2025 edition of South Wales Echo.
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