The Old Bailey jury took five hours to find the woman guilty of carrying out female genital mutilation on her three-year-old daughter in London ALAMYThe mother of a three-year-old girl has become the first person to be found guilty of female genital mutilation in the UK after she failed to “shut up” her accusers with witchcraft. The Ugandan woman, in her thirties, and her Ghanaian partner, in his forties, both from London, were accused of cutting their daughter in 2017. Police found concoctions inside 40 frozen limes and two ox tongues with screws embedded in them that had been supposed to silence police, social workers, officers and lawyers in the case. An Old Bailey jury took less than five hours to convict the mother of carrying out FGM. The father was cleared of FGM and of an alternative charge of failing to prevent it being performed.

Source: The Times February 01, 2019 17:03 UTC