UK court sentences Ekweremadu, wife, and doctor
Ike Ekweremadu, a former deputy president of the Nigerian senate, was given a nine years and eight months prison sentence for a plan to traffic in organs by a court in the United Kingdom.
The court also gave his wife, Beatrice, a four-year, six-month sentence. Dr. Obinna Obeta, the doctor who served as a "middleman" in the scheme, received a ten-year sentence and had his medical license suspended.
The jury determined that they had criminally conspired to transport a 21-year-old street trader from Lagos to London in order to take advantage of him for his kidney, according to The PUNCH in March 2023.
The young man allegedly pretended to be Sonia's cousin in an unsuccessful attempt to convince medical staff to perform a $80,000 private surgery at London's Royal Free Hospital.
After kidney disease prompted Sonia to withdraw from a master's degree in film at Newcastle University, the young man was allegedly given an unlawful reward to donate his organs for Sonia.
The Modern Slavery Act's first conviction of its sort resulted in their conviction.
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