Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, travelled across the country to perform non-therapeutic male circumcisions on young patients up to the age of 14.
The methods he used in private residences were found to be in complete disregard of patient health and safety.
One parent said they can still remember their son’s voice “crying out in pain” as he was operated.
Siddiqui was suspended from working at Southampton General Hospital and later removed from the UK’s General Medical Council Register in 2015 after providing a mobile service from 2012 to 2013.
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.
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Siddiqui continued to use Bupivacaine Hydrochloride and carry out circumcisions in unsafe, unsanitary and harmful ways.
In a victim impact statement read out in court, a family of one victim said: “Mr Siddiqui came to my home with no PPE, no sterilised equipment and not even the items for basic hygiene.
“And he used a numbness cream, which should have been left on for sixty minutes but was only left on for two minutes and carried out a surgical procedure on my son.
“Even now I can remember my son’s voice crying out in pain. He was only five weeks old.
“Due to Mr Siddiqui’s actions my son had to spend two weeks in hospital and even had to go through a Lumbar Puncture procedure.”
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.
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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.”