An ‘excessive physique modification artist’ has had years shaved off his jail sentence after he was jailed for killing one in all his feminine shoppers and inflicting long-term hurt on two others.
Brendan Leigh Russell, 42, was final 12 months sentenced to as much as a decade in jail after being discovered responsible of a string of offences together with his position within the demise of a feminine shopper.
After a judge-alone trial, he was discovered responsible of manslaughter, deliberately inflicting grievous bodily hurt and feminine genital mutilation regarding procedures carried out on three ladies between 2015 and 2017.
One in all his victims, who can’t be recognized and noticed him as a ‘God’, was discovered lifeless inside her Central Coast residence after having an artificial snowflake implant inserted into her hand at his studio on the Erina Honest procuring centre.
The court docket was instructed the girl returned to Russell’s studio a number of occasions earlier than her demise and complained she was experiencing ache and swelling in her proper hand due to an an infection.
Russell (pictured) will serve a seven-year sentence as a substitute of the 10-year time period he was given
Two days after her final go to to Russell, she was discovered lifeless as a result of septicaemia. Following a judge-alone trial in 2021, the physique modifier was discovered responsible of her manslaughter.
Russell was discovered responsible of inflicting grievous bodily hurt after he carried out a botched ‘tummy tuck’ on one other girl in 2016.
A 3rd cost of feminine genital mutilation associated to the elimination of a part of a girl’s labia, along with her consent, in January 2015.
The court docket heard that the girl, who can’t be recognized, skilled ache for 12 months and was unable to make use of tampons and skilled discomfort when carrying underwear.
Final 12 months, Russell was sentenced to a most of 10 years in jail with a non-parole interval of seven years and 6 months. Nevertheless, he launched an attraction towards his convictions and his sentence.
Physique modification artist Brendan Russell put a snowflake right into a 30-year-old girl who later died of blood poisoning. Image: Provided.
In a judgment handed down on Friday, the Court docket of Felony Enchantment quashed his conviction for feminine genital mutilation.
Throughout an attraction listening to earlier this 12 months, his barrister Mark Tedeschi KC efficiently argued that the offence of feminine genital mutilation doesn’t apply to grownup ladies who’ve consented to the process and who don’t bear the operation for ritualistic practices.
Russell additionally appealed towards the size of his jail sentence, arguing that it was manifestly extreme.
Nevertheless Justices Andrew Bell, Kristina Stern, and Natalie Adams upheld his sentence in addition to his different two convictions.
He was re-sentenced to seven years in jail, with a non-parole interval of 5 years and three months. The physique modifier shall be eligible for launch in December 2026.
Russell, who glided by the title BSlice within the physique modification business, travelled round Australia exhibiting off his expertise with instruments reminiscent of scalpels and physique hooks at modification expos.
He additionally carried out procedures at his Tattoo and Physique Modification studio at Erina on the NSW Central Coast and at Tribal Urge tattoo studio in Newcastle.
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