A struck off doctor is facing jail after his horrific ‘unsafe and unsanitary’ mobile circumcisions left his young patients in agony.
Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, charged £250 a time to turn up at his victim’s home to perform the operation, often using just a cream as an anaesthetic.
One boy had to be rushed to hospital when his penis ‘exploded’ after Siddiqui carried out the procedure on his dining room table in Bristol.
Siddiqui had initially denied 39 charges and defended himself in a two month trial.
But he accepted his guilt today and the judge spared the jury who listened to the gory details from sitting on a trial again for a decade.
Mohammad Siddiqui (pictured) faces jail after patients were left in agony by his ‘unsafe and unsanitary’ circumcisions
Siddiqui admitted twelve counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm as well as counts of wrongly administering prescription-only medication and five counts of cruelty to a person under sixteen
Judge Noel Lucas said:’The only way I can thank you is to excuse each of you from jury service for the next ten years.’
Siddiqui of Anchor Crescent, Birmingham, admitted twelve counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, eight counts of wrongly administrating a prescription only medicine, and five counts of cruelty to a person under sixteen.
The charges relate to 21 boys and date between 5 April 2014 and 31 January 2019.
A further nine counts of cruelty to a person under sixteen and five counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm will lie on file, meaning they will only be resurrected if ordered by a judge or by the Court of Appeal.
Siddiqui was thrown out of the medical profession in November 2013 for performing circumcisions on young boys in dirty and unsafe conditions.
But Southwark Crown Court heard he carried on regardless and used anaesthetic Bupivacaine Hydrochloride even though he was barred from doing do.
He had no resuscitation equipment in the event of a serious incident or an adverse reaction from the patient and would tour the country to carry out the operations, often performing several in a day.
Prosecutor Ben Douglas-Jones KC told the jury: ‘As a signpost as to what is to come you will hear about police finding skin and bloody scissors in his medical bag.
‘You will also hear how he used a ‘circumstraint’ board, a board used to immobilise infants and circumcise them.
‘The need for, and use of, this method of restraint is considered unacceptable in the NHS practice, suggesting that the children needed to be restrained because they were in distress or pain.
‘He illegally carried on using Bupivacaine Hydrochloride when he was no longer authorised to use it.’
When Siddiqui’s supply of Bupivacaine Hydrochloride was seized he turned to EMLA cream, a numbing balm that should be left on patients for at least 60 minutes.
‘The defendant’s schedule was such that he would apply EMLA cream and within five to ten minutes proceed to incise foreskin,’ said Mr Douglas-Jones.
The mother of one of the victims, referred to only as ‘Child A’, said she had tried to find a private doctor to circumcise her 15 year old soon, but they all refused because they too thought he was ‘overweight.’
She then met a Somali woman in Bristol who gave her Siddiqui’s number. At that time she knew Siddiqui by the name of Aden Mohammad.
On 9 February 2017, Siddiqui came to their home to circumcise Child A and two other children, for which the mother paid a total of £750.
Mr Douglas-Jones asked her: ‘Did you question the doctor, who had given his name as Dr Aden Mohammad, about his qualifications?’
‘No I did not ask and he did not show me anything.
‘He did tell me he does circumcisions. He did not show me a document or a picture and I did not ask him.’
She told the court that the dining room table was used as an operating table, and that Child A was the last to be operated on.
Siddiqui continued to use Bupivacaine Hydrochloride as an anaesthetic long after he was suspended from the medical profession in November 2013, Southwark Crown Court heard
Siddiqui neither advised of possible side effects or about what to expect from the procedure, she said.
As Siddiqui left, Child A started to bleed.
She said: ‘Child A’s penis got swollen too big. Then he bled, and I called the doctor who did the procedure. He wouldn’t pick up.’
She then called 999 and the teenager was taken to hospital.
‘When I saw the amount of blood between his legs I thought the whole organ had exploded to pieces.
‘I thought his penis had exploded to pieces. I was shocked and frightened.’
Siddiqui will be sentenced on January 14 next year.
