SELF-PROCLAIMED extreme body modification artist Brendan Leigh Russell will be out of jail more than two years ahead of schedule after he successfully appealed against his conviction for mutilating a woman's genitals at a Newcastle West tattoo studio in 2015.
But Russell remains behind bars a convicted killer after he failed in his bid to have a manslaughter conviction for implanting a silicon snowflake into a woman's hand quashed as part of a landmark appeal hearing into the underground body modification scene in NSW.
