Following an organ harvesting scandal, Ike Ekeweremadu, Beatrice Ekweremadu and a doctor, Obinna Obeta, have become the first people convicted under the UK’s Modern Slavery Act.
Following a six-week trial, on Friday 05 May 2023, Justice Jeremy Johnson of the Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court convicted former deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice Ekweremadu and, Obinna Obeta, a doctor. All three were found guilty of an organ harvesting conspiracy in what has been described as a landmark case.
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