(BBC) A family court judge has refused to reopen the case of a man accused of subjecting a three-year-old girl to female genital mutilation (FGM) after he was cleared by a jury.
In April 2018, Judge Carol Atkinson said she was “satisfied” the man and his ex-partner, the child’s mother, were both involved.
The mother was later convicted and the man acquitted at a criminal trial.
Judge Atkinson said she remained sure her original decision was right.
The 37-year-old woman, who came from Uganda and lived in Walthamstow, east London, was the first person in the UK to be convicted of FGM — intentionally altering or injuring the female external genitalia for non-medical reasons.
