London - A British mother won a landmark legal victory to stop her five-year-old son undergoing ritual circumcision at the wishes of his Muslim father. In the first case of its kind to reach British courts, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday that the 29-year-old Christian woman from the Manchester area was entitled to save her son from the operation.
The Appeal Court upheld a High Court ruling earlier this year that the Turkish-born father's wishes for circumcision should not be carried out.