Thames Valley police joint operation sees man charged for physical assaults on children while 'circumcising' 34 boys

Mohammad Siddiqui, from the Hockley area of Birmingham, has been charged with thirty-four offences.

Police said this investigation related to an individual’s possible criminal actions whilst undertaking circumcision procedures and is not concerned with the practice of circumcision itself.

Officers said they have charged the 54-year-old man as part of a Hampshire Constabulary led joint investigation with Thames Valley Police into physical assaults against children in Hampshire, the West Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, London, Dorset and Wiltshire.

According to police, the charges relate to his actions whilst performing circumcision procedures on boys in private residences between 2015 and 2018.

Mr Siddiqui has been bailed to appear at Westminster Magistrates on November 6 after being charged with offences including:

Assault occasioning Actual Bodily Harm.

Parenterally administer, other than to self, a prescription only medicine, when not an appropriate practitioner.

Assault, ill-treat, neglect, or abandon a child or young person to cause unnecessary suffering or injury.