Church of England vicar jailed for three years over body modification

A retired Church of England vicar has been jailed for three years after admitting he carried out an extreme body‑modification procedure on a man in January 2020. Geoffrey Baulcomb, 79, of Eastbourne, East Sussex, pleaded guilty in June at the Old Bailey to causing grievous bodily harm with intent after a nine‑second video of him using nail scissors to widen a man's urethral opening was recovered from his phone. He also admitted a series of other offences relating to indecent and extreme imagery.

Prosecutors said the footage, filmed on January 4, 2020, formed part of material found on Baulcomb's device when it was seized in a December 2022 search of his home. Officers recovered surgical tools, medical supplies, a Burdizzo clamp and drugs, and investigators say Baulcomb had tried to submerge his phone in a toilet during the raid. Caroline Carberry KC told the court Baulcomb had been a subscriber to the Eunuch Maker website and had exchanged thousands of messages with its operator, Marius Gustavson, between 2015 and 2022.

Gustavson, a Norwegian national known as the Eunuch Maker, was convicted last year for running an online operation that broadcast procedures including castrations...