[JUST IN] Organ Trafficking: Ekweremadu Bags 10 Years In Jail

Former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, has been sentenced to nine years and eight months in prison in UK after being found guilty of organ trafficking.

At a sentencing hearing on Friday, Ekweremadu was jailed for nine years and eight months, his wife Beatrice was sentenced to four years and six months imprisonment while Obeta received a 10-year prison term.

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 at the centre of the matter to London to exploit him for his kidney.

The verdict is the first of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 of the UK.