A former Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice and a medical"middleman" have been jailed for conspiring to traffic a market trader to the UK to harvest his kidney.Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and 25-year-old daughter Sonia stood trial accused of a conspiracy to bring the man to Britain from Lagos for his organ.
Mr Justice Johnson told the defendants:"In each of your cases the offence you committed is so serious that neither a fine nor a community sentence can be justified."It was alleged that the 21-year-old street trader was to be rewarded for donating the organ to Sonia Ekweremadu, in an £80,000 private procedure at London's Royal Free Hospital.The case marked the first-time defendants have been convicted under the Modern Slavery Act of an organ harvesting conspiracy.
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