A retired Church of England vicar was sentenced to three years imprisonment for his role in an extreme body modification ring run by a self-declared "eunuch maker."
Reverend Geoffrey Baulcomb, 79, pleaded guilty to charges of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, possession of extreme pornography and the making and distribution of disturbing images of children.
His plea came after the discovery on his phone of a video revealing Baulcomb performing a procedure on a man’s penis with a pair of nail scissors.
In addition to the January 2020 clip, investigators also found material on the "eunuch maker" website run by 47-year-old Norwegian national Marius Gustavson.
Penis and leg amputation ring
Gustavson was jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years last year after it was discovered he made hundreds of thousands of pounds selling videos of extreme body modifications, including castrations. Marius Gustavson willingly had his penis cut off at his London home in 2017 and uploaded the footage to his pay-per-view "Eunuch Maker" website. The 46-year-old also had his left leg amputated after deliberately submerging his leg in dry ice in 2019.
Baulcomb and Gustavson were said to have exchanged more than 10,000 messages with each other over a four-year period.
Baulcomb was banned from church activities last year for life after a tribunal heard last year he was issued with a caution when police found crystal meth and ketamine in his property in December 2022.
The retired vicar claimed at the time that he had been experimenting with drugs or allowing his home to be used for drug taking because it would "better enable him to relate and minister to people with difficulties as part of his pastoral care."
Reuters contributed to this report.