Body modification artist Brendan McCarthy, also known as 'Dr Evil’ has today been sentenced to 40 months in prison for GBH, after carrying out ear and nipple removals and splitting a customer’s tongue, in the first case of its kind in the UK.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-47658303 …
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We’ve first met Brendan in January 2017, and have been following his case since then.pic.twitter.com/6ec90ZfCl3
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While all this was going on there was another monumental event approaching in Brendan’s life. He and his wife were expecting a baby -and the stress was starting to take its toll.pic.twitter.com/lG7coqgBSg
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Until now, body modification procedures have existed at the margins of British law. Here’s Dr Samantha Pegg, a law lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, to explain:pic.twitter.com/GKp9HN5SMM
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It wasn’t any of Brendan’s customers who pressed charges - the case was initiated by Wolverhampton City Council in December 2015, after someone reported a photo they’d seen online.pic.twitter.com/TtgWWkqwHc
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Wait... so he had consent.. it WASN’T.. against the law? And yet he’s being imprisoned!?
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Technically this case establishes it is against the law and it’s classed as GBH. It will take primary legislation to change that.
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hell yeah ex post facto by judicial fiat
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