An Old Bailey Court in the United Kingdom on Friday jailed Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice, and a doctor for conspiring to traffic a market trader to the UK to harvest his kidney.
Ekweremadu was jailed for nine years and eight months, his wife Beatrice was sentenced to four years and six months in prison, while the doctor Obinna Obeta received a 10-year prison term.
The court also sentenced his wife, Beatrice, to four years and six months jail term.
The doctor helping the couple out, Dr Obinna Obeta was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and 25-year-old daughter Sonia stood trial accused of a conspiracy to bring the man to Britain from Lagos for his organ.
The court found the couple and the 50-year-old doctor guilty in March but cleared Sonia of the charges.
Justice Jeremy Johnson told the defendants: “In each of your cases the offense you committed is so serious that neither a fine nor a community sentence can be justified.”
The court heard that the 21-year-old street trader was to be rewarded for donating the organ to Sonia in an £80,000 private procedure at London’s Royal Free Hospital.
The case marked the first time defendants have been convicted under the Modern Slavery Act of an organ harvesting conspiracy.
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