Brendan McCarthy – aka Dr Evil – ran Dr. Evil’s Body Modification Emporium in Wolverhampton from 2012 to 2015, where he carried out extreme body modification. In 2015, Wolverhampton Council argued that McCarthy didn’t have licence to perform procedures “akin to cosmetic surgery.” On the twenty first of March this 12 months, McCarthy was charged with six accounts of wounding, one being the removal of a customer’s ear, and handed a 40-month prison sentence in a ruling that senior Crown prosecutor Rhiannon Jones has called “a landmark case involving body modification.”
While the case could also be unique, body modification has been happening world wide for an estimated 10,000 years — although only began to actually take off within the West within...
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