GP accused of being involved in female genital mutilation fails to have charges thrown out

A GP caught in a newspaper sting over female genital mutilation has failed in a bid to have General Medical Council charges against him thrown out on the ground of entrapment.

Ali Mao-Aweys faces an allegation that he offered to help arrange for the procedure to be done on a child or children in the United Kingdom, in meetings and a telephone conversation with an …