Man to stand trial as 10-month boy ‘lucky to be alive’ after ‘crude circumcision’

A 54-year-old man is to stand trial after a 10-month old baby boy was left lucky to be alive from a “crude circumcision” carried out in the midlands three years ago.

Father-of-six, Philip Ogbewe, 54, from Nigeria but living in Ireland 20 years and residing at Green Lanes, Drogheda, Co Louth allegedly used a surgical blade on the infant who was hospitalised for two weeks.