In recent years, five UK children are known to have died following circumcision. At least two of these deaths, including Oliver's, followed procedures performed by rabbis. Because NTMC data collection is inevitably haphazard, information about non-fatal side effects is limited. Freedom of information responses reveal numerous hospital attendances, including intensive care unit admissions. For example, in 2025, Birmingham Children's Hospital documented 17 babies requiring treatment for life-threatening circumcision complications. Notably, no child safeguarding referrals were made.
One of Siddiqui's convictions was for child cruelty, causing 'deliberate infliction of pain' by operating without anaesthetic. In this regard, he aligned with the Jewish Medical Association, a registered charity which states that 'No formal anaesthesia is given routinely.' The Royal College of Anaesthetists, however, confirms that anaesthesia is required for circumcision
In 2015, the government's response to the PFD following Oliver's death was that legislative change 'would require considerable consultation…'. Mohamed's subsequent death in comparable circumstances followed woeful government inaction over the intervening years. Lessons remain unlearned.
Es gibt da offenbar ein enormes Trägheitsmoment.
Nein, es ist einfach Feigheit. Die drei Affen von Nikko.
In March 2026, responding to the PFD relating to Mohamed's death, the surgeon and 'British Muslim Government Minister' Dr Zubir Ahmed acknowledged the coroner's serious concerns, whilst stating that 'it is rare that a death occurs'.
Aha. Passiert nur selten, dass ein Junge stirbt. Von den Fällen schwerer Komplikationen ganz zu schweigen.
Kann also ruhig so weiterlaufen! 
Denn Dr. Ahmed hatte damals ja Glück gehabt? Dass er das zumindest überlebt hat?
I do not belong to the orthodox Jewish community into which I was born. We will never know what the adult views of dead babies might have been. Genitally disfigured men rarely speak publicly. I have witnessed brave men being ridiculed for articulating the harm they have suffered: senior religious representatives declaring that they must have 'other psychological problems', as if the surgical reduction of their genitals according to beliefs they don't share was insufficient.
Antony Lempert sei herzlich für seinen unermüdlichen Einsatz gedankt! 