Overview

• Mohammed Alazawi received a nine-year prison term at Southwark Crown Court on July 15 after being found guilty of fraud, wounding with intent and unlawful supply of prescription medicines.
• West Midlands Police and the Crown Prosecution Service uncovered more than 550 cut-price circumcisions carried out by Alazawi in London and Birmingham between October 2016 and January 2022.
• Families were deceived by his claims of 12 years of NHS experience and use of a genuine doctor’s business card to secure consent for home-based procedures.
• Court testimony described infants and older boys left with bruising, infections and prolonged agony from ill-fitted plastibell rings and improper anaesthetic administration.
• Judge Gregory Perrins warned that lack of statutory regulation enabled Alazawi’s abuses and urged Parliament to introduce legal safeguards for non-therapeutic circumcision.