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The Guardian - UK
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Jessica Murray and agencies

Man who sent girl to Iraq for FGM jailed in legal first for England and Wales

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The judge at Nottingham crown court jailed Emad Kaky for his ‘barbaric’ plans. Photograph: eye35.pix/Alamy

A former PhD student has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for arranging to send a young girl to Iraq for female genital mutilation (FGM), in the first conviction of its kind in England and Wales.

Emad Kaky, 47, was found guilty of conspiring to commit FGM last month, the first time a person had been convicted of a conspiracy charge in relation to FGM.

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