A mother has told how she opened her three-month-old baby's nappy to find he had been circumcised without her consent.

The woman, from Nottingham, said she was so distraught she had to leave the room. Three suspects, including a family GP, have now been arrested over the incident.

"I opened the nappy and I ended up having to leave the room because I felt hysterical," the mother, who did not want to be identified, told the BBC.

"It was just awful really, it wasn't very nice, there was all blood there and stuff."

The boy was said to have been operated on while on a visit to his paternal grandparents, who are Muslim.