In the first instance of its sort, a Nigerian politician was found guilty of organ trafficking in Britain.
In an effort to obtain a young man from Lagos’ kidney, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and “middleman” Dr. Obinna Obeta, 50, formed a plan. All three were found guilty of the crime.
It is the first time defendants have been found guilty of an organ harvesting conspiracy under the Modern Slavery Act.
As the jury, which deliberated for over 14 hours, acquitted their daughter Sonia of the same allegation, she sobbed uncontrollably.
The victim, a 21-year-old street trader from Lagos, was brought to the UK last year to provide a kidney to Sonia in an £80,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London.