Six jailed members of a lucrative “human butchery” enterprise can challenge the length of their sentences, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Mastermind Marius Gustavson and his acolytes carried out male ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marius Gustavson, who led the extreme body modification ring, is one of six men appealing against the length of their sentences ...