(BBC) A former doctor has been jailed for five years and seven months after admitting he caused “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 for money.
He was suspended and later struck off the General Medical Council (GMC) register but continued the circumcisions, which “ignored” basic hygiene rules.
Siddiqui pleaded guilty last October to 25 charges, including assault occasioning actual bodily harm and cruelty to a person under 16.
The charges related to offences committed across the south of England and the West Midlands — including in Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Birmingham, Worcestershire and London.
