Atkin, a 39 year old veterinary science student involved in eight procedures, was also handed a 12-year sentence. Stefan Scharf, a 61 year old German national, was sentenced to four years and six months for removing a man’s testicle in Gustavson’s Camden flat, while Romanian Ion Ciucur, 30, received a five-year and eight-month sentence.
Another gang member had previously confessed to freezing the leg of an alleged ringleader of an extreme body modifications group, resulting in the limb needing to be amputated. Jacob Crimi-Appleby, a 22 year old from Epsom in Surrey, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Marius Gustavson in February 2019.
Crimi-Appleby was given a three-year and eight-month prison sentence. Nurse Nathan Arnold, 48, from South Kensington, west London, admitted to partially removing Gustavson’s nipple with a scalpel in the summer of 2019.
The offender confessed to having taken anaesthetic from the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital between the years of 2016 and 2022, where he was employed. Furthermore, he was found to possess 72 explicit pornographic images, described as “graphic and appalling” by the judge. He received a two-year custodial sentence which has been suspended, as well as 100 hours of unpaid work.