(BBC) A former doctor has admitted causing “painful cruelty to children” by running a mobile circumcision service.
Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, from Birmingham, was a practising doctor at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust when he started visiting homes to carry out circumcisions.
He was suspended and later struck off the General Medical Council (GMC) register by a medical practitioners tribunal, but continued the circumcisions anyway, which “ignored” basic hygiene rules.
On Tuesday, Siddiqui pleaded guilty to 25 charges against him, including assault occasioning actual bodily harm and cruelty to a person under 16.
