AN extreme body modification artist who killed one woman and seriously injured two others during dangerous cosmetic procedures in Newcastle and the Central Coast is "a monster" who has not shown any remorse or accepted responsibility, one victim's mother says.
Brendan Leigh Russell, now 41, known as BSLICE, was in November found guilty of manslaughter, intentionally causing grievous bodily harm and female genital mutilation after a judge-alone trial in NSW District Court. Among the procedures, Russell used a branding iron to mutilate a female customer's genitals at a Newcastle West tattoo parlour in 2015 and implanted a silicone snowflake under the skin of a woman's hand in 2017. Judge Helen Syme found the second woman died of septicemia and Russell had breached his duty of care at such a gross level that he was criminally responsible for her death.
