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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Jessop

The Eunuch Maker documentary: the gruesome true story behind the man who livestreamed body mutilation

Marius Gustavson, 46, of Haringey, north London, the mastermind of a lucrative extreme body modifications enterprise (Metropolitan Police/PA) - (PA Media)

It reads like something from a novel, but it is, depressingly, true: a man from Norway who made a living castrating and removing body parts from people, who were very much alive, in Finsbury Park.

Marius Gustavson lived a quiet life in a Victorian terraced house, but unknown to his neighbours, the room under his stairs had been turned into a butcher’s shop, where he sawed off body parts and livestreamed the whole thing to 20,000 paying subscribers.

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