Nigerian politician, wife and medic jailed over organ harvesting plot

A Nigerian senator, his wife and a medical "middleman" have been jailed for conspiring to traffic a market trader to the UK to harvest his kidney.

Politician Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, stood trial accused of a conspiracy to bring the man to Britain from Lagos so he could provide an organ for their 25-year-old daughter Sonia Ekweremadu.

The couple, along with medical "middleman" Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were found guilty of offences under the Modern Slavery Act at the Old Bailey in March.

Sonia Ekweremadu - who has a serious kidney condition - wept in court as she was cleared of the same charge.

Ekweremadu was jailed for nine years and eight months, his wife Beatrice was sentenced to four years and six months in prison, while Obeta received a 10-year prison term.

Passing sentence, the judge, 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."

The judge's sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgm....ents/r-v-ekweremadu-

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