Couple guilty of bid to buy street trader's kidney for ill daughter

A WEALTHY Nigerian politician and his wife face long jail terms for luring a poor street trader to Britain to try to make him give up a kidney to save their seriously-ill daughter.

- Paul Jeeves

Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice and Dr Obinna Obeta were yesterday convicted of conspiring to arrange travel for the man with a view to exploiting him for his organ.

The Ekweremadus' daughter Sonia, 25, declined to give evidence and was cleared after a landmark Old Bailey trial which resulted in the first convictions under the Modern Slavery Act for an organ-harvesting conspiracy.

Chief Crown Prosecutor Joanne Jakymec said: "This was a horrific plot to exploit a vulnerable victim by trafficking him to the UK for the purpose of transplanting his kidney."

Penniless