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Have you had enough diversity yet ? I’m guessing it’s his daughter A former University of Nottingham professor, who tried to arrange for a girl to be circumcised and forced into marriage in Iraq, has had his jail sentence increased. In the first prosecution of its kind in England and Wales, a trial at Nottingham Crown Court heard how Emad Kaky said the young victim “is not going to die, a lot of people are practising it”. The 48-year-old, formerly of Nottingham and now of Swansea, denied any involvement in trying to commit the crime, which was not actually carried out. But a jury took just five hours to convict him of conspiracy to commit Female Genital Mutiliation (FGM) and forced marriage. This week, the Attorney General’s Office confirmed that the four-and-a-half year term which was handed to him late last year has now been increased to seven years after it was referred to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme. The Solicitor General Lucy Rigby KC MP said: “FGM is a sickening crime and this government is determined to stamp out the practice as part of our mission to halve violence against women and girls. This offender intended to inflict grotesque physical and mental suffering upon a child. The court has rightly decided to increase his sentence to reflect the severity of his crime.