A VILE former doctor made a boy’s penis “explode” after carrying out hundreds of back street circumcisions using rusty tools.

Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, left children “screaming” in agony after charging £250 for the barbaric procedures.

The doctor used rusty tools and no pain relief on the boys and strapped them to a board so they would not move.

During one particularly gruesome op on a dining room table in Bristol, a boy’s penis “exploded” – causing him to almost die.

Even when he was struck off and arrested five times, Siddiqui continued to carry out circumcisions at family homes.

He has now been jailed for five years and seven months for causing children “gratuitous pain and suffering”.

Siddiqui pleaded guilty to 25 offences, including 11 counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and six counts of child cruelty.

He also admitted eight counts of administering a prescription-only medicine to young and vulnerable patients while ignoring basic hygiene rules and performing non-therapeutic male circumcisions.

The charges relate to 21 boys and are dated between April 2014 and January 2019 but Siddiqui is believed to have carried out hundreds of circumcisions.

From June 2012, Siddiqui ran a private mobile circumcision service and sourced anaesthetic while working at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

Southwark Crown Court was told he travelled around the UK and by appointment performed non-therapeutic male circumcisions on patients aged between one-month-old and 15-years-old.

Siddiqui was struck off the medical register in 2015 after he was found to have carried out the procedure on four boys.

One of these children “almost died” during the op after suffering a severe reaction to Bupivacaine, an anaesthetic used to numb an area of the body during surgery.

Siddiqui was also paid £300 to perform a circumcision on a 15-year-old boy in 2017.

The teen had to be rushed to hospital for surgery after his penis “exploded with blood” due to a blood clot that developed shortly after the procedure.

Doctors found his genitals had been fitted with a Plastibell circumcision ring that was “much too small”.

The court heard Siddiqui also used unsterilised tools – including unpackaged pairs of scissors and tweezers.

He would often not wash his own hands before performing the procedures and held patients down using a “circumstraint” board.

Siddiqui also had no equipment to resuscitate patients in the event of a serious incident.

In a victim impact statement, one mum told how she feels guilt and choosing Siddiqui to operate on her son.

She said: “We simply invited Siddiqui into our lives to be able to observe one of our religious customs.

“The fact we, as parents were responsible for introducing Siddiqui to (our child’s) life continues to be a source of profound guilt for us.

“As a parent you feel your primary role is to protect your child.”

While another mum told the court the family was nearly “torn apart” by Siddiqui.

During his case, the disgraceful doctor attempted to recuse the judge and get the prosecution sent to prison.

Sentencing, Judge Noel Lucas KC told Siddiqui he had done “everything you could to delay the wheels of justice to prevent the trial from taking place”.

Anja Hohmeyer of the Crown Prosecution Service said: “Siddiqui practised these circumcising acts in an unsafe and unsanitary environment and left children with emotional and physical scars as a result of his actions.

“He showed a complete disregard for the impact of his actions on his victims, families, and communities.

“The delays Dr Siddiqui has caused to disrupt and elongate court proceedings whilst ultimately undertaking his own defence also need to be recognised.

“His actions throughout the court process have caused significant further disruption and distress to his victims and their families, alongside significant additional legal costs due to the length of the delays he has caused.

“We hope that this conviction offers draws a line for all of those affected and brings some comfort to them in seeing Siddiqui being brought to justice.”