(BBC) A woman jailed after handing over a three-year-old British girl for female genital mutilation (FGM) during a trip to Kenya has lost a Court of Appeal bid to reduce her sentence.
Amina Noor, from Harrow, north-west London, was jailed for seven years in February following her conviction for assisting a non-UK person to carry out the procedure overseas 18 years ago.
She was the first person to be convicted of taking someone to another country for FGM and the second in the UK to be convicted under the FGM Act 2003.
Her lawyers argued that the sentencing judge had failed to understand the cultural context in which she had gone to the so-called “clinic” with the child — but the appeal was dismissed.
