Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president, has been sentenced by the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, UK to nine years and eight months in prison for organ harvesting.
His wife, Beatrice, was handed four years and six months jail term during the sentencing on Friday while Obinna Obeta, a medical doctor got a 10 years’ sentence for the same offence, BBC reports.
On March 23, the jury pronounced a guilty verdict on the senator, his wife, Beatrice, and Obinna Obeta, a doctor who acted as the middleman.
The jury held that they conspired to bring the 21-year-old young Nigerian man who was identified as David Nwamini to Britain to London to exploit him for his kidney.
The trio of Ekweremadu, Beatrice and Obeta were convicted of conspiracy to arrange the travel of a young Nigerian man who was identified as David Nwamini to Britain in order to exploit him for his kidney.
The organ was needed for Ekweremadu’s sick daughter, Sonia.
According to reports, the verdict is the first of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 of the UK.
