Six month trial delay for circumcision ‘practitioner’

A practitioner accused of running a mobile circumcision service to perform ‘ritual’ operations on children must wait another six months for his trial. Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, allegedly carried out the procedures for members of the Islamic and Christian community between 2015 and 2019, causing unnecessary pain and suffering. He travelled across the West Midlands to perform the dirty operations on boys as young as two days old, it is said. Siddiqui allegedly provided a prescription-only anaesthetic despite not being an…