A disgraced NHS doc who was banned from practising 9 years agone was caught carrying retired "unnecessarily painful" circumcisions with a rusty hook - causing 1 child's penis to "explode".
Mohammed Siddiqui, 58, was jailed for 5 and a fractional years aft cops uncovered the unregulated circumcision work that helium ran aft exploiting a medical loophole. The erstwhile paediatrician was struck disconnected astir a decennary anterior aft bungling religiously motivated circumcisions connected 4 boys.
But this didn't halt him from uncovering a mode to run a "mobile children's circumcision service" some privately and legally, wherever helium carried retired much than 1,500 of the botched procedures crossed the UK. Over a 5 twelvemonth period, Siddiqui was said to person "cut corners and caused unnecessary pain, suffering, cruelty and risk" to "maximise profits" connected his £300 operations - each of which were done by assignment astatine the family homes of patients.
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Stephen Richards/Wikipedia)His young patients were near “screaming” successful agony aft being fixed insufficient symptom alleviation during the procedures, which Siddiqui performed utilizing rusty aesculapian equipment. In 1 case, a 15-year-old boy's penis “exploded with blood” owed to a humor clot that developed soon aft his procedure.
Another kid "almost died" aft suffering a terrible absorption to Bupivacaine, an anaesthetic utilized to numb an country of the assemblage during surgery. After searching his car, cops recovered a rusty hook with a serrated instrumentality and bloodied scissors with tests showing they had traces of quality tegument connected them. An aggravated Siddiqui aboriginal said successful a courtroom outburst that the allegations against him were "lies", adding: "The scissors and tegument was each planted by the police. My humor is boiling."
Officers besides recovered a "circumcision immobiliser" successful the backmost of his vehicle, a instrumentality utilized to restrain children during circumcisions, positive different instruments which had not been decently sterilised. Inquiries revealed Siddiqui, of Winston Green, Birmingham, had been struck disconnected the GMC registry successful 2015 and branded a hazard to patients aft a drawstring of botched circumcisions betwixt June 2012 and November 2013 erstwhile helium was employed arsenic a Clinical Fellow successful paediatric country astatine University Hospital Southampton.
At Inner London Crown Court, Siddiqui was jailed for 67 months and was made taxable of superior organised transgression prevention bid preventing him from carrying retired non-therapeutic circumcisions aft his release. He was convicted astatine an earlier proceeding of 12 charges of battle occasioning existent bodily harm, 5 charges of cruelty to a kid and 8 charges of administering medicine lone medicines betwixt 2014 and 2019.