FGM mother becomes first to be convicted

A Ugandan woman who carried out home FGM surgery on her three-year-old daughter has become the first person in Britain to be convicted of the offence. After helping a ‘witch’ to carry out the barbaric practice, the woman cast a series of black magic spells with cow’s tongues and limes to silence police and medical experts investigating her. The 37-year-old arranged for the little girl to be pinned down and mutilated in a filthy flat in east London on Bank…