A girl {accused} of aiding the genital mutilation of a younger woman in Kenya has pleaded not responsible throughout a listening to on the Previous Bailey.
Amina Noor, 39, allegedly took the kid – aged between three and 4 – to Kenya sooner or later between January 13, 2006 and April 2, 2007, the place the process was carried out.
Noor is charged with aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring a non-UK citizen to mutilate the genitals of a UK feminine citizen.
The process was a ‘type-1 feminine genital mutilation which entails the whole removing of the clitoris’, the court docket heard.
Amina Noor, 39, allegedly took the kid to her former dwelling nation of Kenya to below go the process between January 2006 and April 2007 – she denies the allegation
Noor appeared on the Previous Bailey (pictured) on Thursday sporting a scarf and aided by a Somali translator as she spoke to verify her identify and deny the cost
Initially from Kenya, Noor was granted UK citizenship in 2005.
She appeared on the Previous Bailey on Thursday sporting a scarf and aided by a Somali translator as she spoke to verify her identify and deny the cost.
Stuart Harris, defending, earlier mentioned she accepted the actual fact she took the kid to Kenya, however ‘didn’t know precisely what was occurring or what had been organized.’
Throughout as we speak’s plea listening to, Decide Mark Lucraft KC confirmed the case could be heard by a Excessive Court docket decide on the similar court docket.
Noor, of Edgware, northwest London, was granted unconditional bail forward of her two-week trial on the Previous Bailey on 16 October this yr.
She faces an additional preliminary listening to on 14 April.
The alleged sufferer, who’s a UK citizen, can’t be recognized for authorized causes.
