Mother accused of FGM ‘put a spell on police with cow’s tongues and 40 limes’

A mother tried to cast black magic spells on police and doctors after carrying out genital mutilation on her three-year-old daugher, a court heard. The 37-year-old Ugandan, and the girl’s Ghanaian father aged 43, got a ‘witch’ to help them carry out the surgery at a filthy flat in east London, it is claimed. They instructed the victim to tell police and social workers she had fallen and injured herself on the door of a cupboard after she had climbed…