A rogue doctor who left children in ‘gratuitous pain and suffering’ after botched circumcisions has been jailed for more than five years.
Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, from Birmingham, was a practising doctor when he started visiting homes by appointment to carry out circumcisions on children.
Court heard how some of these left the children ‘screaming’ in agony.
Siddiqui had pleaded guilty to 25 offences, including 11 counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, six counts of child cruelty, and eight counts of administering a prescription-only medicine to young and vulnerable patients while ignoring basic hygiene rules and performing non-therapeutic male circumcisions.
He was suspended and later struck off the register however he continued to carry out circumcisions at family homes.
During these he used unsterilised tools which led to a number of young children having to be taken to hospital following the procedure.
This included one boy who ‘almost died’, a court heard. He was rushed to hospital after he received an injection of Bupivacaine, an anaesthetic used to numb an area of the body during surgery, to which he had an adverse reaction.
He was jailed for five years and seven months.
The charges relate to 21 boys and are dated between April 2014 and January 2019.
