A university academic found guilty of conspiring to commit female genital mutilation (FGM) in a "landmark case" has been jailed. Emad Kaky, who lived in Nottingham at the time he offended, arranged for a young girl to travel to Iraq, where she would have been subjected to FGM and forced into marriage.

Emad Kaky was found guilty of conspiracy to commit FGM and forced marriage following a two-week trial after he made travel arrangements for a young girl to travel from the UK to Iraq. The defendant was sentenced by Judge Nirmal Shant KC at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday, who called the planned offence “barbaric”.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An Iraqi doctoral student living in Wales was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for conspiring to carry out female genital mutilation (FGM) and the forced marriage of a young girl.