Appalling. Of course performing MGM on non-therapeutic grounds is implicitly a criminal offence under OAPA1861 – it’s at least ABH, almost certainly GBH – but the police don’t arrest the criminals. I sought to bring a private prosecution of Balvinder Mehat, a Sikh circumciser in Nottingham, but a judge denied me leave to do so. Our many blog pieces on Mehat here.

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