Dhanuson Dharmasena, 32, and a second man, Hasan Mohamed, 41, are standing trial accused of carrying out the illegal procedure in the first prosecution of its kind in the UK.
Jurors at Southwark crown court were told that the operation on the woman had been conducted at the Whittington hospital in North London and not in “a back street clinic”.
The victim, then 24, had her vagina sewn up after she gave birth to her first child in November 2012. The prosecution claims it was done by Dr Dharmasena with the “insistence and encouragement” of Mr Mohamed.
Dr Dharmasena, of llford, Essex, has pleaded not guilty to one count of carrying out the procedure and Mr Mohamed has denied aiding and abetting the procedure as well as an alternative count of intentionally encouraging and assisting the offence.
