Senator Ike Ekweremadu, His Wife, and Doctor Have been convicted of Organ Trafficking under the modern slavery Act in the United Kingdom. And it is the first verdict of it’s kind.
His Daughter was however, cleared of the same charges.
A former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, have been found guilty of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom.
The duo alongside their a medical doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain with a view to his exploitation after a six-week trial at the Old Bailey.
Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and medical “middleman” Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were found guilty at the Old Bailey of conspiring to exploit a young man from Lagos for his body part.
The Ekweremadus’ daughter Sonia, 25, wept as she was cleared of the same charge on Thursday.
It is the first time defendants have been convicted under the Modern Slavery Act of an organ harvesting conspiracy.
They criminally conspired to bring the 21-year-old Lagos street trader to London to exploit him for his kidney, the jury found on Thursday.
The judge, Justice Jeremy Johnson, will pass a sentence at a later date according to the Guardian UK reports.