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Now it's £4.60 for a DIET COKE! Soaring pub prices hit new low as furious customers of London watering hole are charged nearly £5 for a pint of fizzy drink - while cost of lager hurtles towards £9

NEW The Alexandra, in Clapham, which sits just off Clapham Common, has become the  latest boozer to face a backlash over the cost of its drinks.

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An internal document revealed that officials are only in touch with 2,143 of the 5,700 people earmarked to be on the first flights to the African state.
Ministers insisted the asylum seekers will be located as the policy comes closer to being implemented.
But Labour branded the situation a 'farce' saying it exposed the 'total lack of grip' the government had on the asylum system.
Experts suggested many of the missing individuals had done a 'disappearing act' to Ireland because they did not want to be sent to Rwanda.

Galway hotel fire: Irish police probe inferno at 19th Century Georgian venue set to house 70 asylum seekers - as blaze was sparked just hours after protesters formed blockade outside

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Brits face higher grocery bills as retailers warn post-Brexit border checks coming into force today mean they will have to put up the price of food imported from the EU

Brits are facing higher grocery bills as post-Brexit border checks coming into force today mean the price of food imported from the EU will go up, retailers have warned.

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Calling a female colleague a 'pretty woman' at work is sex discrimination, tribunal rules

Suggesting that a women's looks might help the business is not 'flattering' and risks 'diminishing' her as it wouldn't be said to a man, an employment judge found.

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Record 711 migrants crossed the Channel yesterday - the highest number on a single day this year - after boat with 66 men, women and children on board was rescued off Dieppe

Some 711 people were detected crossing the English Channel on Wednesday, the highest number on a single day so far this year, according to provisional figures from the Home Office.



How much money has the British government given to Rwanda?
On top of the 220 million pounds Britain has already paid Rwanda, the government has agreed to pay an extra 150 million pounds over the next three years, and 120 million pounds once the first 300 asylum seekers have been resettled, the National Audit Office.

What will the Rwanda plan cost? The UK government had paid £240m to Rwanda by the end of 2023. However, the total payment will be at least £370m over five years, according to the National Audit Office .

How many asylum seekers can be sent to Rwanda?
It comes after the Home Office confirmed Rwanda had agreed to accept an initial cohort of 5,700 asylum seekers under the separate forced returns scheme.
The scheme - which the government argues will deter future migrants from crossing the English Channel in small boats - has been dogged by legal delays.

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Trans patients are now getting a 'grotesque' new surgery to give them a combined penis and vagina.

The bizarre rise of the 'phalgina': Cosmetic clinics are offering 'grotesque' £10,000 surgery to craft non-binary people a penis AND vagina

So-called 'phalginas', a term made of the words phallus and vagina, are offered by multiple clinics in the US for 'non-binary' patients though there is interest in the procedure in Britain.

Britons also claim to have been in discussions with UK surgeons about undergoing the procedure, although none are known to have actually had it.

Traditionally, trans men and women wanting affirming surgery are given the option of an op to alter or remove their original genitals and have new ones crafted.

But the phalgina does away with this 'binary' option, and instead gives patients the chance to have both.

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Rise of restaurant 'stealth tipping': From a 15% 'management fee' to a £2.99 'checkout' cost, how growing number of eateries across Britain are automatically adding charges to your bills

One trendy dim sum restaurant chain, Ping Pong, recently abolished their tip system in favour of a US-style 15 per cent 'management' fee, sparking outrage from customers.

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EU threat to KEBABS: Outrage in Europe at proposals to force all slices of meat in a doner to be the exact same thickness in bonkers Brussels bureaucracy

The country demanded that there should be very specific rules for how thin slices of doner meat should be, what the meat should consist of, and that there should be a 'certain standard' to its production

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Inside the disturbing 'cult' of extreme body modification gang where 'eunuch maker' cut off men's genitals, nipples and other limbs for 'lucrative' website that amassed more than 22,000 paying users worldwide

    *GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING* 

Weeks of evidence have lifted the lid on what is surely one of the most depraved criminal conspiracies ever to reach the Old Bailey - an extreme body modification gang who cut off men's genitals, nipples and limbs for paying online subscribers.

Through his 'Eunuch Maker' site, ringleader Marius Gustavson and other members of his 'cult' carried out at least 30 of the vile procedures on men who had been pressured and manipulated into having their bodies mangled while others watched.

But if you are thinking this is another freak oddity lurking on an obscure corner of the dark web, you'd be wrong...

Not only did the group have 22,000 paying subscribers (generating £300,000 in revenues) - they also conducted their sick trade completely in the open, with a public website accessible to anyone who stumbled upon it.

Front and centre of the whole operation was Gustavson, an 'arch manipulator' who collected a group of 'acolytes' attracted to the deviant business, according to prosecutors, by 'the sexual element of the offending and financial gain'.
Marius Gustavson and other members of his 'cult' cut off men's genitals, nipples and other limbs while streaming the footage online

The website had 22,000 paying subscribers and generated £300,000 in revenues

The Norwegian national, who had to have his leg amputated in February 2019 after getting a man to freeze it, claimed £18,000 in disability payments up until 2021 while living in north London.

He appeared for sentencing today alongside six other members of his gang, including his 'right-hand man' Peter Wates, a retired former member of the Royal Society of Chemists, and Janus Atkin, who had been completing a veterinary course.

Also facing jail are Romanian Ion Ciucur, 30, 61-year-old German Stefan Scharf, surgical assistant David Carruthers, 61, and his boyfriend Ashley Williams, both from South Wales.

Carruthers was involved in six procedures including four testicle removals. He worked for Ceredigion and Mid Wales NHS trust from 1991 to 2002 as a 'domestic assistant' but has no medical qualifications.

The charges against the men relate to 13 victims, who are being safeguarded by specialist detectives.

Despite consenting to the procedures - often in return for the promise of payment - they were described by prosecutors and 'vulnerable' to Gustavson's manipulation.

The wide-ranging conspiracy lasted from 2017 and 2021 and involved the removal and trade of body parts, the Old Bailey heard.

The procedures were filmed and uploaded to the 'Eunuch Maker' website Gustavson ran, and subscribers paid to watch, with varying levels of membership from 'free' to 'VIP' which cost £100.

The practice is linked to a subculture where men become 'nullos', short for genital nullification, by having their penis and testicles removed.

Prosecutor Caroline Carberry KC told the court that during a Facetime call with a man in Sweden, Gustavson told him to 'maim himself' by cutting off his testicles with a knife.

Gustavson told him: 'You know what to do come on, just push it.'

Three days later, he encouraged him to cut off his penis.

In one testicle removal video Gustavson can be heard saying 'that was a lot quicker than the last one' and 'such a nice cut.' He holds the removed testicle up to show the camera.

Ms Carberry said that Gustavson 'sold on' some of the removed body parts to others, including Wates.

After one procedure, she said Gustavson had 'cooked some testicles for lunch' which he ate in a salad he had prepared for himself.
Janus Atkin who had been completing a veterinary course while taking part in the deviant conspiracy

Janus Atkin who had been completing a veterinary course while taking part in the deviant conspiracy

Gustavson had taken various images from 'raw ingredients to an artfully arranged salad platter'.

In a video played during the hearing of another incident, one of the group's victims was branded with the letters 'EM', for eunuch maker, on the back of his calf.

The man later complained to police about Gustavson and his 'circle of acolytes' in November 2020 and an investigation was launched.

He is the only victim who has assisted the police with their enquiries.

Ms Carberry said: 'It was his report in November 2020 to police about the procedures done to him in 2019 which started this large complex police investigation.

'He told police he was high on drugs when Gustavson cut his scrotum with a scalpel.'

The victim said the procedure left his testicles injured so he then tried to get Gustavson to remove them entirely.

When he went to Gustavson's flat in September 2019 he did not remove his testicles but clamped them causing him to 'cry and howl in pain.'

In the video he can be heard saying 'what the f*** have you done to me?'

But he went back to Gustavson's flat on December 2.

Ms Carberry said: 'He thought he was attending in order to have his dead testicles cut off but that did not happen.

'What happened instead was that Gustavson used a red hot branding iron on the back of his legs. The iron had been fashioned with the initials "EM" which stands for Eunuch Maker.

'It's right to say in fact it was [the victim] who had made that branding tool for Gustavson. He at that time believed Gustavson to be his master, he being Mr Gustavson's servant.'
Ashley Williams - seen outside court - was the boyfriend of surgical assistant David Carruthers, 61, a fellow gang member

He told police he was a 'servant' to Gustavson and Carruthers.

On a later occasion, his testicle was taken out by Carruthers before being put back in when the surgery started to go wrong.

The victim told police: 'At this point I realise I need to see a urologist rather than a backstreet surgeon.'

He said he 'wants to kill' Gustavson, who he knew as 'Theo', for leaving his testicles 'mangled'.

'I've realised I've been trusting the wrong person and Gustavson is in fact a lunatic,' he said.

In a victim impact statement, the man said he was severely depressed when he first met Gustavson.

He said: 'I wanted out and was quite prepared to go to extraordinary lengths to change anything.

'The cult like atmosphere Gustavson propagated around himself was captivating. The persona he created for himself in the world of body modification was a masterpiece.'

He said the Eunuch Maker website 'made it all feel like a game'.

'Eunuch badges' would be given to members who had undergone a verified castration which gave them 'clout', he said.

'I remember the joy I felt when my Eunuch badge appeared on my profile,' he said.

He said Gustavson injected him with testosterone before the first procedure and he believes this was done to make him 'compliant to his manipulation..'
Damien Byrnes, a male prostitute, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to five years in prison for causing GBH with intent

Damien Byrnes, a male prostitute, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to five years in prison for causing GBH with intent

He said he had consented to the removal of his testicles but 'wanted out' when Gustavson brought out clamps normally used for livestock.

'I realised my mistake, I wanted out but I was strapped down, high, and unable to do anything about the situation.

'When I hear people consented I wonder what idea of consent they're going with because I sure as hell didn't consent to what happened to me that drug fuelled night.'

He said that after Carruthers put his testicle back in he realised his mistake.

'At that point I realised my mistake at long last. The scales fell form my eyes and my anger rose like fire.'

'Fury like nothing else I've felt before.

'The group of people he introduced me to was at first impression welcoming and pleasant.

'It is only with the benefit of hindsight I can see how manipulative and coercive it truly was.

'It took being away from their circle of influence to realise how under their sway I was.'

He said he was told to lie to his therapist and was 'persuaded' by the other that he had issues with his gender identity.

'I was given coaching that if castration came up to say it was a lifestyle choice and I was happy with it.'

He said he was scared to go to police as Gustavson was the 'unquestioned leader' of 22,000 people.

'Knowing I was the reason for the closure of their playground could have caused several problems.

'I'm scared of whatever remains of his followers although I am sure some have realised it needed to stop.'

After the investigation began, ten men were arrested after police raids in London, Scotland and South Wales.
Gustavson's boyfriend Jacob Crimi-Appleby, 23, was jailed for three years


Ms Carberry said police officers found Gustavson's penis 'in a drawer in his home four years after it had been amputated'.

He was also found to be in possession of beastiality pornography and had sent three indecent images of children to another man.

In one message he claimed to have castrated and had sex with an eight-year-old.

He was convicted in Norway in 1999 for fraud committed against a housing cooperative he was the chair of.

In 2001 he was sentenced to eight months imprisonment partially suspended for fraud in obtaining items over the Internet for which he did not intend to pay.

Gustavson pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit grievous bodily harm, five counts of grievous bodily harm with intent, one count of making an indecent photograph of a child, one count of distributing an indecent photograph of a child and possession of criminal property contrary to Section 329(1) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

Ion Ciucur, 30, of Gretna, Scotland, Wates, 66, of Purley, Surrey, Stefan Scharf, 61, of no fixed address, David Carruthers 61, Atkin, 38, Ashley Williams, 32, all of Newport, Gwent, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit grievous bodily harm.

Former nurse Nathaniel Arnold, 49, Jacob Crimi-Appleby, 23, and male prostitute Damien Byrnes, 36, all admitted removing body parts from Gustavson and were jailed last year.

Crimi-Appleby, who had a sexual relationship with Gustavson after meeting him aged 17, froze his leg causing it to require amputation, Byrnes removed his penis with a vegetable knife while Arnold partially removed his nipple with a scalpel.

Byrnes was earlier jailed for five years, Crimi-Appleby for three years and eight months while Arnold was given a two year suspended sentence.

The sentencing hearing continues.

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I want to think of some way to reply to this but I just can't now.   And I don't use the word "can't" in real life.....   

Please tell me that honest hard working, tax paying citizens are not in any way paying for the care or costs associated with these things....    If someone wants to "nullify" themself, then fine, laissez-faire,  but do not in any way expect ANYONE else to be obligated to support medical or mental health care in any way.    Fuck around and find out....  It may be a dark-ages perspective, but voluntarily doing something such as this has serious consequences,  and if it ends poorly, even a long time later,  then too bad, so sad, you chose it, good-bye.

I agree that people who choose to do that stuff should, like in any other sphere, suffer any consequences, negative or otherwise, that arise.
 
I reckon the younger age group would baulk at your comment but actually you're right.
I think the notion they would baulk is a symptom of the young of today. 

Too molly-coddled, wrapped in cotton wool, and don't know how to deal with adult-life circumstances, which means they 'need' the state to be their parents through adulthood.

They need to be taught that every choice in adult-life has consequences, whether known to be a risk or those unintended consequences.   

If the 'yoof' of today were better brought up, they would be more well-rounded people and there would be less stressy stuff , because they would know how to deal with it.


 
 

 

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I want to think of some way to reply to this but I just can't now.   And I don't use the word "can't" in real life.....   

Please tell me that honest hard working, tax paying citizens are not in any way paying for the care or costs associated with these things....    If someone wants to "nullify" themself, then fine, laissez-faire,  but do not in any way expect ANYONE else to be obligated to support medical or mental health care in any way.    Fuck around and find out....  It may be a dark-ages perspective, but voluntarily doing something such as this has serious consequences,  and if it ends poorly, even a long time later,  then too bad, so sad, you chose it, good-bye.

I agree that people who choose to do that stuff should, like in any other sphere, suffer any consequences, negative or otherwise, that arise.
 
I reckon the younger age group would baulk at your comment but actually you're right.
I think the notion they would baulk is a symptom of the young of today. 

Too molly-coddled, wrapped in cotton wool, and don't know how to deal with adult-life circumstances, which means they 'need' the state to be their parents through adulthood.

They need to be taught that every choice in adult-life has consequences, whether known to be a risk or those unintended consequences.   

If the 'yoof' of today were better brought up, they would be more well-rounded people and there would be less stressy stuff , because they would know how to deal with it.

these type of fringe idiotic mindsets would have been beat out of anyone who held them on the playground by the time they were 9 or so in my world. 

yes of course we realize and realized each one of us were different and individual-  that wasn't any sort of problem.   What we are contemplating here are serious mental illnesses.....  Not simply preferences or identities.   Only biological males doing this?   well there you go.... We are pretty much simpletons...  but thankfully almost all of us know it's not any sort of good idea to cut off our willy....

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No way I love playing with mines and worship others x