Somali woman paid a struck off doctor to circumcise her 15-year-old son on their dining room table

A mother told a court how she thought part of her son’s body had ‘exploded’ after she paid a struck-off doctor to carry out a circumcisions on their dining room table. Dr Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, administered prescription-only anaesthetics, despite not being an appropriate practitioner and sometimes used creams instead, causing unnecessary pain, it was said. Siddiqui denies 39 charges, including assault causing actual bodily harm and cruelty to a person under the age of 16. The charges relate to 23…