▪︎ Wife goes in for six years
▪︎ Dr Obetan is to spend 10 years; with medical licence suspended
The UK court has reportedly sentenced a former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria Ike Ekweremadu to ten years and six months (but will spend nine years and eight months) in prison for organ trafficking plot.
The court also sentenced his wife, Beatrice, to six year, bt will spend four yers and eight months in custodiaal centre while the medical doctor who helped them as a ‘middleman’, Dr Obinna Obeta got 10 years.
He, in addition, got his medical licence suspended, according to a report by BBC Pidgin.
They were sentenced, having been found guilty of organ-trafficking plot against a 21-year-old man they allegedly trafficked from Lagos to the UK in March 2022. Ekweremadu was arrested on June 21, 2022 at the Heathrow Airport as son as he touched down in the country.
Senator Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were found guilty of conspiracy to exploit the kidney of the 21-year old man contrary to the provisions of the modern slavery laws.
The court said that there were aggravating features in his case, saying that Ekweremadu deliberately targeted the vicitm who was particularly vulnearable due to his younf age =, his iolsation from his family and his poverty.
The court said that Ekweremadu, after the consiracy was discoveed, continued to look for another person to exploit in the same way.
He noted that Ekweremadu had no previous case of conviction, stressing that he as a person of good character.
Recall that the UK Authorities had said that the victim was a street trader taken from Lagos to the UK last year to provide his kidney for £80,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
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