Testicle remover pleads guilty

A man has pleaded guilty to cutting off someone's left testicle in an Australian motel room after responding to an online advert asking for help with a sensitive medical problem.

Allan George Matthews, 56, admitted "removing tissue" from the 52-year-old "without consent or authority" in Port Macquarie, north of Sydney, in May, a local court in the town heard on Wednesday.

Police alleged that Matthews was not a qualified or registered doctor.

The other man, who was not named, posted the ad because he could not afford a proper medical procedure for the testicle, which had troubled him since being kicked in the groin some years ago, Sydney's Daily Telegraph reported.