Senator Ike Ekweremadu has been sentenced to nine years and eight months imprisonment by a United Kingdom court, in the first case under UK’s modern slavery laws.
Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice, and a certain Dr Obinna Obeta were sentenced for their role in trying to illegally secure a kidney for Sonia, a 25-year-old daughter of Ekweremadu.
Beatrice Ekweremadu has been sentenced to four years and six months imprisonment, while Dr Obeta would spend the next 10 years in prison.
The trio was arrested and charged after an unnamed 21-year-old boy had told doctors in the UK that the Ekweremadus had ‘tricked’ him to the UK to harvest his organs for their daughter.
Senator Ike Ekweremadu has been sentenced to nine years and eight months imprisonment by a UK court in the first case under the UK's modern slavery laws. Ekweremadu, along with his wife Beatrice and Dr. Obinna Obeta, were found guilty of trying to illegally procure a kidney for Sonia, Ekweremadu's 25-year-old daughter.
Beatrice Ekweremadu received a sentence of four years and six months, while Dr. Obeta was sentenced to ten years in prison. The trio was arrested and charged after a 21-year-old boy informed UK doctors that he had been tricked by the Ekweremadus into coming to the UK to harvest his organs for their daughter.
