It is a criminal offence for British residents to perform or assist with the procedure overseas.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 200 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to the practice.
Female genital mutilation is illegal in the UK and many other nations. It is also a criminal offence for UK nationals or permanent residents to perform or help to perform it overseas. Noor, from Harrow in northwest London, faces a single charge – which she denies – of assisting a non-UK resident to mutilate female genitalia while abroad.
“Not only was the procedure carried out upon …but the defendant had been discussing precisely the kind of FGM before she took to that clinic,” Heer said.
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