(BBC) A university academic found guilty of conspiring to commit female genital mutilation (FGM) in a “landmark case” has been jailed.
Emad Kaky, who lived in Nottingham at the time he offended, arranged for a young girl to travel to Iraq, where she would have been subjected to FGM and forced into marriage.
The 47-year-old was previously convicted of two charges — forced marriage and conspiracy to commit FGM — and jailed for four and a half years on Thursday.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said the FGM conviction was the first of its kind in England and Wales.
Sentencing Kaky at Nottingham Crown Court, Judge Nirmal Shant said: “FGM is — as the courts have previously described it — a barbaric practice and a serious crime which involves deliberate physical mutilation, and it is usually inflicted on women who are young and vulnerable.”
