A man told his friend the 'cult-like' NSW body modifier she was seeing was 'dangerous' before she died from his alleged plastic implantation in her skin, a court has been told.
The woman had become obsessed and sexually attracted to Brendan Leigh Russell and had slept with him at least once, the NSW District Court was told on Thursday.
Russell, known by the moniker Bslice Dot Com, had performed a number of procedures on her including a heart implantation on her finger, and the stretching of her inner ear, her body piercing friend said.
Body modifier Brendan Leigh Russell also known as Bslice Dot Com (pictured), has pleaded not guilty to the charges of her manslaughter and to female genital mutilation related to another woman he operated on
But others such as her nipple reconstruction and a sub-dermal implant were 'not her idea', he said.
The Crown says she died from septicaemia following the snowflake implantation in her hand, but the defence disputes this.
Russell has pleaded not guilty to the charges of her manslaughter and to female genital mutilation related to another woman he operated on in 2015 and 2017.
The 40-year-old also denies intentionally causing grievous bodily harm to another woman in the back of his workplace Transition in Erina Fair Shopping Centre in November
