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A man who was arrested after spending several years running a website where he castrated people and live streamed the process kept some of the body parts he cut off.

Marius Gustavson called himself the ‘Eunuch Maker’ and when police raided his home, they found a number of amputated body parts in various conditions.



Among the body parts were Gustavson’s own penis, which had been amputated several years prior and kept in a drawer, as well as human testicles kept in takeaway trays in his freezer.

Gustavson, a Norwegian national, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 22 years behind bars for what he did, while six others – including the person who castrated him – were also sentenced to prison time.

During his sentencing, the Old Bailey heard that subscribers to his website, of which there were over 22,000, paid money to watch live streams of the castrations and access other content, with the most expensive annual subscription costing £100.

Among the videos the court heard about were ones which featured the ‘Eunuch Maker‘ eating severed body parts, while the Old Bailey also heard that a photo from his phone dated 22 June, 2018 showed he ‘cooked some testicles for lunch’.

Prosecutor Caroline Carberry KC said that Gustavson’s phone contained pictures of ‘raw ingredients’ including human testicles which were then put together in an ‘artfully arranged salad platter’.

The court heard that he kept other body parts he amputated as ‘trophies’ and a judge said that what he was doing was ‘little short of human butchery’.

Gustavson’s story and the accounts of some of his victims is told in the new documentary The Eunuch Maker, where Marcel Theroux tried to uncover why someone would go to this man for castration.

The ‘Eunuch Maker’ carried out his amputations in hotel rooms and London flats, and when things went wrong he would call 999 and claim that his victims had injured themselves.

At his sentencing his defence team tried to claim that Gustavson was suffering from a rare condition called body integrity dysphoria (BID), but the prosecution argued that even if that explained why the man removed parts of his own body it didn’t ‘explain why he made a lucrative business out of mutilating others’.

Speaking about meeting Gustavson for The Eunuch Maker, Theroux said ‘his explanations were really unsatisfying’ but ‘he had a superpower for kind of melting away people’s shame’.

He said: “I think he got a huge amount of status out of it. He was the Eunuch Maker. He had this website. He could promise money to people. He got money. He kind of made it.”

The Eunuch Maker is available to watch on Crime+Investigation and Crime+Investigation Play.