BREAKING: Ekweremadu, wife guilty of human organ trafficking, London court rules

A former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice have been found guilty of by a London court on Thursday.

The Ekweremadus were found guilty along side a medical personnel Obinna Obeta, 50, for conspiring to harvest the kidney of a 21-year-old man from Lagos.

 

Prosecutors told the Old Bailey the organ was to be removed and given to the couple’s daughter, Sonia, aged 25.

The victim, a street trader from Lagos, was brought to the UK last year to provide a kidney in an £80,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London.

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