Woman who handed over British girl, 3, for FGM in Kenya given seven years

Det Supt Andy Furphy outside the Old Bailey in London after Amina Noor was jailed for seven years for assisting a non-UK person to carry out female genital mutilation. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

A woman who was found guilty of handing over a three-year-old British girl for female genital mutilation (FGM) during a trip to Kenya has been jailed for seven years.

Amina Noor, 40, was convicted last year of assisting a Kenyan woman to carry out the procedure overseas in 2006. The conviction was the first for assisting in such harm under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003.