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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Daily Mail
Retired vicar, 79, admits role in 'Eunuch Maker' castration ring after using nail scissors on man's penis and swapping 10,000 messages with ringleader
A retired vicar has today admitted his role in a castration ring with a self-styled 'Eunuch Maker' after he was found using nail scissors on a man's penis. Geoffrey Baulcomb, 79, who was expelled from the Church of England last year by a disciplinary panel, was still ordained at the time of his offences. The 79-year-old today pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent at the Old Bailey, after he was captured enlarging the opening of a man's urethra in a nine-second video of the incident. The footage, which was found on the vicar's mobile phone, is said to have been filmed on January 4, 2020. He was later arrested in December 2022. Baulcomb previously admitted to three counts of making indecent images of a child, namely one Category A image, four Category B images and 37 Category C indecent images. Three further charges against Baulcomb related to possession of extreme pornography, one of which related to eight images of a person performing an act of intercourse with a live or dead unknown animal. Another involved '182 images which portrayed in an explicit and realistic way an act which resulted or was likely to result in serious injury to a person's anus, breasts or genitals and which were grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character.' The images were linked to 'Eunuch Maker' Marius Gustavson's website, who mutilated paying customers and streamed it online. Gustavson, from Norway, who had his own penis cut off, a nipple removed and his leg frozen so it had to be amputated, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years in May 2024. His penis was found in a drawer in his home almost four years after it had been amputated. Judge Nigel Lickley KC today told Baulcomb he would likely face 'a custodial sentence of some length'. He added: 'The sentence will be on September 1. You are required to be here, if you are not here you are likely to be arrested. 'The date may move, things change so keep in touch with your legal advisors. Your bail will be as before - you are free to go today, thank you.' Baulcomb was granted conditional bail, ordering him not to attend any Church of England premises or functions and to have no contact with children under the age of 18. Prosecutor Caroline Carberry said: 'This defendant is not deemed a flight risk by the police in this case. He has been on bail for a really long period of time now.' Baulcomb will be sentenced on September 1. Police raided Baulcomb's £25,000 cottage near Eastbourne in December 2022 and found a stash of heroin along with the tranquilliser ketamine. He accepted a police caution for possessing the substances and told church officials he had been buying and using drugs, including heroin, 'periodically' for 20 years. The Church of England's (CofE) disciplinary tribunal had 'utterly rejected' his claim that taking drugs 'assisted him in carrying out his pastoral mission'. Baulcomb, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, was ordained as a priest in 1970, according to the Church of England website. He retired from the historic St Mary the Virgin church in Eastbourne, East Sussex, several years ago but was still ordained at the time of the offences. The diocese said the Baulcomb's permission to officiate was immediately removed after being contacted by police. A statement said: 'The Diocese wishes to put on record our gratitude for the Metropolitan Police's pro-active approach to information sharing and partnership working, which has enabled us to manage the risks Mr Baulcomb has presented whilst under investigation.'
Daily Mail
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
QUENTIN LETTS: Castration! The Secretary of State was desperate to depict herself as a toughie, so she aimed below the belt
Shabana Mahmood was eager to discuss castration. The Justice Secretary had just announced an unprecedented dilution of criminal sentences. All sorts of thugs will now serve a mere third of their porridge. Soft on crime, soft on the causes of crime. Yet Ms Mahmood was keen to depict herself as a toughie, so she aimed below the belt. Castration. 'I'm not squeamish,' she averred, narrowing her eyes like a farmer closing some gelding clamps on a bullock's knackers. Charlotte Nichols (Lab, Warrington North) had asked if chemical castration might suit sex maniacs. Ms Nichols remains utterly still when she speaks. There is something troubling about her, even when she is not proposing castration. Ms Mahmood said the idea had often been considered by her Tory predecessors but they (even Liz Truss, amazingly) had demurred. What was different this time? Well, none of them ever agreed to such an extraordinary release of convicts. None, therefore, needed to create a distraction by talking about sex pests' down-belows. Beside the Secretary of State sat a ministerial colleague Alex Davies-Jones, crossing her muscular forearms and shouting 'year-year' in a Rhondda baritone. Ms Mahmood had one last thing to say about castration. She wished 'to use every tool'. Blimey. That was one way of putting it. This announcement represented a Leftwards lurch in penal liberalisation. Labour and Lib Dem MPs (they are increasingly the same thing) approved; yet they did not want it applied to those guilty of violence against women. This was the crime that most gripped the Left. Not burglary. Not murder or terrorism. Not even BBC licence fee evasion. Count yourselves lucky they won't be giving us the snip for that. Robert Jenrick, shadow minister, sprang to the despatch box and unleashed a response that instantly drew fire from the Left. No one upsets them quite like Mr Jenrick. 'The Labour Party doesn't believe in punishing criminals,' he cried, his delivery salty, energetic, undeniably electric. Speaker Hoyle may not be a fan, mind you. He twice interrupted Mr Jenrick, ostensibly to hush the hecklers. This cost Mr Jenrick his flow. Then the Speaker told him off for saying Ms Mahmood was 'out of her mind'. When Ms Mahmood was back on her feet, the Speaker told Mr Jenrick to show more respect to the minister. Mr Jenrick harrumphed. A United Nations peace envoy may be needed to improve relations between Hoyle and Jenrick. Sir Desmond Swayne (Con, New Forest West) said nothing weakened justice more than knocking years off judges' sentences. Ms Mahmood seemed to agree, oddly. Sir John Hayes (Con, South Holland & The Deepings) noted that 'the Establishment, poisoned by liberal thinking' had long been at odds with public opinion on prison sentences. For this he was rewarded with further yelps of abuse from Labour and the Lib Dems. Which in a way rather confirmed the truth of Sir John's comment. 'I believe in prison,' said Ms Mahmood, even as she was letting cons go free. She complained bitterly, in just about every paragraph she uttered, about the previous government's failure to build enough prisons; yet her policy was based on a report by David Gauke, who served in that very government as minister in charge of prisons. Labour MPs kept attacking the old Tory government and praising Mr Gauke. They were the same thing, you numpties! With MPs now off for the Whitsun break, perhaps they could use their leisure to read Evelyn Waugh's story Mr Loveday's Little Outing, about an apparently reformed murderer who is let out of his lunatic asylum with predictable results. The story is short and horribly true. Which leaves room to touch, briefly, on another apparently inevitable tragedy. Amid rumours of her impending destruction, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy missed her departmental questions. She was at the World Expo in Osaka. In her absence she was theatrically upstaged by her deputy, Chris Bryant. Farage in France, Reeves in Canada, Nandy in Japan: Parliament's a tough old gig.
The Sun
22-05-2025
- The Sun
I met Europe's sickest paedos after they were castrated – a dark confession proved exactly why it WILL work in UK
HIS leg twitching as he described to me his savage crimes, violent paedophile Rafael Josef admitted a nine-year-old girl was 'terrified' when he raped her. Then, he calmly revealed that after being released from prison for that act of barbarism, he'd bludgeoned and forced himself on an older woman who later died. 8 8 8 It was utterly stomach-churning to listen to this depraved monster, who was seemingly beyond redemption. Yet, Josef's doctor was convinced he wouldn't reoffend when he walked free from the secure psychiatric unit where he was being held in the Czech Republic. That's because the former labourer - like dozens of the central European nation's most dangerous sex offenders - had been castrated. In a 30-minute operation, he had part of his testicles removed to repress his paedophilic urges. Josef had even volunteered for the operation himself - and advised offenders in Britain to undergo the same process. Speaking through a translator, he told me: 'I wish I had been castrated years ago and would advise other repeat violent sex offenders to have the operation. "It was painful but afterwards I felt calmer, more balanced. I was able to think more about my life and how sorry I am for my crimes.' Despite the self-confessed violent paedophile choosing to undergo the op, human rights advocates have labelled the procedure 'degrading' for the prisoner. Never mind the rights of the nine-year-old who was raped or future victims that an uncastrated Josef might have later attacked. Expect a similar outcry from liberal lobbying groups as Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood ponders mandatory castration for the most serious sex offenders in Britain. Government exploring mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders A chemical - rather than physical - castration method will be used here. Some will undoubtedly believe that the worst of the worst deserve to go under the knife. Making the procedure compulsory would be deeply controversial with the British medical profession, where consent is a long-standing principle of treatment with any procedure. But chemical castration is mandatory for some men in several US states, including California. 'Dangerous deviants' Locked inside the Havlickuv Brod psychiatric clinic, 60 miles south-east of Prague, I was met with the beady-eyed glare of other paedophiles and rapists who had also volunteered to be castrated. The Czech Republic is the only country in Europe to surgically castrate sex offenders. Dr Zelmira Herrova had overseen around 40 operations at the time of my 2009 visit. The medic revealed: "Surgical castration is only carried out on dangerous deviants who have to request it themselves. "They find castration a relief. The rate of re-offending among my patients is zero." Yet when the Council of Europe anti-torture Committee (CPT) visited the Czech Republic last year, it called for an end to physical castration. 8 8 Its report said: 'The number of approved applications for surgical castration continues to be relatively low, in comparison with the number of interventions actually carried out some two decades ago. 'However, that in itself cannot remove the Committee's fundamental objection to surgical castration, which could easily be considered as amounting to degrading treatment. 'The CPT once again urges the Czech authorities to put a definitive end to surgical castration as a means of treatment of sex offenders.' In Britain, a voluntary chemical castration pilot scheme in the South West will be expanded to 20 prisons in England and Wales ahead of a planned roll-out nationwide. Drugs are used to inhibit the action of the sex hormone testosterone, which aims to lower sex drive. Studies have shown using drugs to dull sex urges can slash offending by up to 60 per cent. A government source said: 'For too long, we have turned a blind eye to the threat sex offenders pose, considering the solutions too difficult or unpalatable. 'Shabana isn't squeamish about doing what it takes to protect the public. 'As always, she will grab this problem by the proverbials.' 8 8 8
Daily Mail
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Paedophiles and other sex criminals 'will be CASTRATED' under new Government plans
Paedophiles and rapists could be castrated under new Government plans. Drugs can be used to dull urges and slash offences by nearly two thirds, studied have shown. Now Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is said to be looking at plans to roll the treatment out across 20 prisons in England and Wales, ahead of a nationwide programme. And she is reported to want to go further still - and is exploring whether the UK could adopt chemical castration for sex criminals. 'For too long, we have turned a blind eye to the threat sex offenders pose, considering the solutions too difficult or unpalatable,' a Government source told The Sun. 'Shabana isn't squeamish about doing what it takes to protect the public. 'As always, she will grab this problem by the proverbials.' The newspaper reports that plans for a small voluntary pilot have been rejected for not being tough enough. Castration has already been used in some US states, including California, for offenders who have been released on parole. A poll in February found that more than two-thirds of voters under 30 believed sex offenders should be castrated. The survey, by Find Out Now, recorded 67 per cent of them as being in favour of chemically castrating sex offenders and just 24 per cent opposed, reflecting the generation's tough law-and-order attitude. Chemical castration is voluntary in German, France, Sweden and Denmark, and some sex offenders actively seek it out. The process includes taking two drugs, one to limit sexual thoughts and the other to reduce testosterone and limit libido. It has also been proposed by countries including Cyprus, as an alternative to serving life sentences. The proposal comes months after Kazakhstan announced the mass chemical castration of 11 paedophiles amid a campaign for the worst offenders to have their genitals surgically removed. All the men reportedly 'committed crimes against the sexual inviolability of minors' in the Kostanay region in the north of the country. Details were not given of the cases, but the child sex offenders were starting to forcibly receive libido-sapping injections. Approval was given for the paedophiles to be jabbed 24 times a year at an annual cost of £278 each. Kazakhstan has some of the toughest laws in the world on paedophiles. Official information is published on their addresses after release from prison so parents can understand where potential danger is lurking.
