‘Cupboard door story was a lie,’ confesses FGM father

A father accused of carrying out home FGM surgery on his daughter admitted to a jury that the girl’s mother ‘made up’ the story that she injured herself falling on a cupboard door in order to explain away her wounds. The girl’s 37-year-old Ugandan mother later tried to cast a series of voodoo spells using cow’s tongues embedded with nails to ‘silence’ police and doctors, it is claimed.? Her mum and Ghanaian father, 43, are accused of getting a ‘witch’…