Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice
Ike Ekweremadu, a former Deputy Senate President; Beatrice, his wife; and their doctor have been found guilty of organ trafficking in the UK.
The decision was reached after a jury deliberated for 14 hours.
It represents the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act of the country.
Ekweremadu, 60; his wife, Beatrice, 56; and Dr Obinna Obeta, 51, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain to exploit him after a six-week trial at the Old Bailey.
READ ALSO:
Prosecutors told the Old Bailey that the kidney was to be harvested for Sonia, the couple’s daughter. Sonia was cleared of the same charge.The victim, a street trader from Lagos, was brought to the UK last year to provide a kidney in an £80,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Obeta was regarded as the middleman in the case. FIJ
Truck crushes many vehicles on Imo varsity junction, five killed Owerri- An unidentified Truck driver, on Saturday…
Rivers crisis delayed my administration’s take-off – Fubara Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara yesterday confessed…
EFCC hands over $22,000 recovered from Nigerian fraudster to FBI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)…
Chaos in Abuja market as soldiers, traders clash There was commotion in Banex – an electronics…
Wigwe varsity becomes most expensive Nigerian university, unseats Nile, Baze “I cannot change the world overnight. But…
Woman burns stepchildren's hands for eating their father's rice A stepmother, Rachel Geoffrey, 23, has been…