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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sam Rigney

Landmark body modifier appeal focusing on 'informed consent' of patients

Body modifier Brendan Leigh Russell during his manslaughter trial in Sydney.

LAWYERS for a body modifier convicted of killing one woman, mutilating the genitals of another and performing a "tummy tuck" on a third say the women's "informed consent" to the procedures should have been available as a defence in his 2021 trial and his convictions should be quashed.

The landmark two-day all grounds appeal of Central Coast body modifier Brendan Leigh Russell, now 42, began in the Court of Criminal Appeal in Sydney on Monday.

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