A UK court has sentenced Ike Ekweremadu, former Deputy Senate President, to nine years and eight months’ imprisonment for organ trafficking.
The court, Friday, also committed Beatrice, his wife, to four years and six months in prison.
Obinna Obeta, the doctor who helped facilitate the crime, bagged a 10-year jail term, and had his license taken from him.
This verdict came two months after the court found them guilty of trafficking a 21-year-old male from Lagos, Nigeria, to the UK to extract his kidney to transplant into Sonia Ekweremadu, daughter of the lawmaker.
The three convicted are the first people to be jailed under the UK’s Modern Slavery Act, and prosecutors described it as a landmark judgement.
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