A former surgeon for the National Health Service of England who amputated his own legs to fulfill a sexual fetish has had his medical license revoked. Andrew Neil Hopper, 50, submerged his legs in dry ice for an excruciating eight hours, requiring amputation, after becoming involved in an international network of men who performed clandestine castration procedures in the production of pay-per-view pornography.
Hopper, a former consultant vascular surgeon, had claimed more than £466,000 in insurance payouts after the amputations by attributing his loss of limbs to sepsis. He pleaded guilty to fraud and three counts of possession of extreme pornographic images last year, was sentenced to 32 months in prison, and now has been barred from the medical profession by the General Medical Council (GMC).
Following his trial and sentencing, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) released the official case findings outlining how the fraud was exposed. During their inquiry, investigators discovered that Hopper had been a member of a castration fetish forum operated by Norwegian national Marius Gustavson – the ringleader of a “grisly and gruesome” criminal enterprise that sold footage of men being castrated and mutilated as pornographic content. The Eunuch Maker site, which operated on a pay-per-view subscription basis, had amassed over 22,000 registered users and brought in nearly £300,000 before it was shut down by authorities.
Despite the international coverage of the disturbing genital mutilation ring, media failed to note that Gustavson had been a prominent member of the LGBT activist community.
According to Gustavon’s LinkedIn profile, he was a volunteer and Senior Steward for London’s Pride organization between 2016 to 2019.
Prior to his relocation to London in 2012, Gustavson was Chairman of the Board for the Buskerud chapter of transactivist lobbying group The Norwegian Organization for Sexual and Gender Diversity, now known as FRI. Gustavson was involved in a leadership position at the organization from 2001 through 2007.
In 2018, The Norwegian Organization for Sexual and Gender Diversity (FRI) successfully lobbied the World Health Organization to officially depathologize fetishism, sadomasochism, and fetishistic transvestitism by removing them from the 11th revision of the International Classifications of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11).