Southampton surgeon jailed for 'unsafe' mobile circumcisions...

Southampton surgeon jailed for ‘unsafe’ mobile circumcisions

A former Southampton doctor was imprisoned for providing a mobile circumcision service.

Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, travels all across the nation to circumcise young men up to the age of 14 without the use of therapeutic methods.

He was discovered to have completely disregarded patient safety and health when using these techniques in private homes.

One parent claimed to still recall their son’s voice “crying out in pain” throughout the procedure.

After offering a mobile service from 2012 to 2013, Siddiqui was taken off the UK’s General Medical Council Register

in 2015 and suspended from Southampton General Hospital.

This came after a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel found him guilty of failures in performing the

procedures in the homes of four babies.

But despite being struck off, he continued to operate his mobile service and used anaesthetic on patients.

Through his work as a clinical fellow in paediatric surgery at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation

Trust, he was able to source the anaesthetic Bupivacaine Hydrochloride.

He continued his work as non-therapeutic male circumcision is unregulated and not required to be carried out by a

medical practitioner.

Siddiqui persisted in performing circumcisions in dangerous, unhygienic, and damaging ways and using

buprevacaine hydrochloride.

“Mr. Siddiqui came to my home with no PPE, no sterile equipment, and not even the items for basic hygiene,” the

family of one victim stated in a victim impact statement that was read aloud in court.

Additionally, he performed surgery on my son and applied a numbing lotion that was supposed to be applied for

sixty minutes but was only applied for two minutes.

I can still hear my son’s voice wailing in agony. He had only been born for five weeks.

“My son had to stay in the hospital for two weeks and even undergo a Lumbar Puncture procedure as a result of Mr.

Siddiqui’s actions.”

Another family said Siddiqui acted “so brazenly” and “without regard” for the people he is there to help, adding that

a “power imbalance” led him to commit such acts.

Siddiqui, from Birmingham pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court on October 29, 2024 to a total of 25 offences.

These included, 11 counts of actual bodily harm, six counts of cruelty to a child and 8 counts of administering

prescription only medicines contrary to the law.

He was jailed for more than five and a half years after appearing at Inner London Crown Court today.

Police Staff Investigator Damon Kennard from Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary said: “This was a highly

unusual case for police to become involved in.

“I was concerned at Dr Siddiqui’s apparent lack of insight and willingness to take action to remediate clinical failings

highlighted to him by the General Medical Council that would have ensured the correct procedures were performed.

“He appeared entirely indifferent to the risk and suffering he was subjecting children to and in so doing betrayed the

trust parents had placed in him to conduct a safe and sanitary circumcision.”