NHS doctor accused of female genital mutilation in test case

A doctor accused of carrying out female genital mutilation on a mother used a model of a woman’s vagina as he took to the stand to defend himself against the allegation.

Dhanuson Dharmasena, 32, is standing trial accused of carrying out the procedure at the Whittington Hospital in north London, in the first prosecution of its kind in Britain

He allegedly illegally stitched the young mother back up after she gave birth in November 2012 — re-doing the FGM carried out on her as a six-year-old in Somalia.