The Norwegian national made almost £300,000 from a website that amassed 22,841 users who would pay to watch unnecessary surgical procedures.
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A self-styled 'eunuch maker' who mutilated paying customers and streamed it online has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years.
Marius Gustavson
admitted offences including five counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
He was described at a three-day sentencing at the Old Bailey as 'a lunatic', 'an arch-manipulator' and 'a butcher'.
In the end it was the bravery of one of Gustavson's victims, who cannot be named for legal reasons, that led to the website being taken down. In later procedures the man told police how he had his testicles clamped and how Gustavson had used a red-hot iron designed by the victim to brand him with the initials 'EM' - which stood for 'Eunuch Maker'.
Having pled guilty to a series of charges, including conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm with intent, making and distributing indecent images of a child and possessing extreme pornography, Gustavson did not need to give evidence at trial.
Investigations by journalists into Gustavson's background in Norway, and what his defence team claimed in court, make it possible to trace how the once-respectable community figure descended into a spiral of criminality.
Originally from a small town to the south-west of Oslo, Gustavson was a postal worker and the chair of an LGBT charity, known for organising Pride weekends as well as the traditional 'Russ' celebrations - a series of events and parties high school students enjoy before their final exams. But by 1999 he had received a suspended prison sentence for a fraud committed against a housing co-operative, and in 2001 he was sentenced to eight months for internet fraud. Defence barrister Rashvinderjeet Panesar said Gustavson's marriage in 2005 kept him 'stable', but it broke down in 2016 - which was when he began to 'modify' himself.
Final Rogues' Gallery
Six men, who all admitted conspiracy to commit GBH with intent, were sentenced alongside Gustavson:
Nathaniel Arnold - 48 - South Kensington - 2 years suspended - GBH
Janus Atkin - 38 - Newport - 12 years - conspiracy to commit GBH with intent
Damien Byrnes - 36 - Tottenham - 5 years - GBH
David Carruthers - 61 - Newport - 11 years - conspiracy to commit GBH with intent
Ion Ciucur (Romanian national) - 30 - Gretna Green - 5 years and 8 months - conspiracy to commit GBH with intent
Jacob Crimi-Appleby - 23 - Epsom - 3 years and 8 months - GBH
Marius Gustavson (Norwegian national) - 46 - Finsbury Park - 22 years minimum - conspiracy to commit GBH with intent, GBH with intent, making child pornography, possessing criminal property, possessing extreme pornographic images, distributing indecent pseudo-photographs of a child
Stefan Scharf (German national) - 61 - no fixed address - 4 years and 6 months - GBH with intent
Peter Wates - 67 - Croydon - 12 years - conspiracy to commit GBH with intent
Ashley Williams - 32 - Newport - 4 years and 6 months - GBH with intent
A man who came to international attention after being arrested for performing dozens of fetishistic castrations out of his home in North London can be revealed as a Norwegian activist affiliated with a powerful ‘Queer’ lobby group.
Marius Gustavson, 44, was arrested along with six other men in February. Shortly after his arrest, he told The Independent in an interview that had undergone an amateur orchiectomy himself and carried the operation out on 58 other men. He stated that he had his own genitals surgically removed because he wanted to “look like a Ken doll with nothing down there.”
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Gustavson told media that he executed the procedures using a Burdizzo, an instrument for removing the testicles of livestock. He admitted that he kept the amputated appendages in his freezer and preserved them in alcohol in his basement apartment.
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According to Gustavon’s LinkedIn profile, he was a volunteer and Senior Steward for London’s Pride organization between 2016 to 2019. His first Eunuch Maker site was registered in 2016, and in 2018, he started a film production company called Nullset.
Prior to his relocation to London, Gustavson was Chairman of the Board for the Buskerud chapter of transactivist lobbying group The Norwegian Organization for Sexual and Gender Diversity, now known as FRI. Gustavson was involved in a leadership position at the organization from 2001 through 2007. During this time, FRI went by the name ‘The National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation,’ or LLH.
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A website owned by Gustavson, eunuchmaker.co.uk, sold graphic videos of castrations and amputations. Registered in 2016, it also offered the option of paid monthly memberships for streaming videos of penectomies. Premium subscriptions included the option of a “free castration performed by the EunuchMaker”.
Promotions on his primary platform direct visitors to another URL owned by Gustavson, Eunuchmaker.info. Archived versions of the page redirect to yet another online community, the-em.com, which is cited in criminal charges filed October 21, 2020, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma against two men who participated in fetishistic genital surgeries.
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