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2025-02-23 20:04:06
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2d8e91l4o
A man who was jailed for conspiring to commit female genital mutilation (FGM) in a "landmark case" has had his sentence increased.
Emad Kaky, 48, was jailed for four and a half years in October, after he arranged for a young girl to travel to Iraq, where she would have been subjected to FGM and forced into marriage.
His sentence after the FGM conviction, which was the first of its kind in England and Wales, was contested under the Unduly Lenient Sentence (ULS) scheme, external.
The Attorney General's Office confirmed on Tuesday that Kaky's sentence was increased to seven years on 24 January.
Kaky, who completed a PhD at the University of Nottingham in 2017, had booked and paid for the victim's trip to Iraq while he was living in the city, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said his plans were uncovered by a witness who arranged for the girl to travel back to the UK and reported Kaky to the police.
Kaky committed the offences while living in Nottingham, but lived in Swansea in Wales at the time of the conviction.