A wealthy Nigerian politician, his academic wife and a 'middleman' doctor have been jailed for trafficking a penniless market trader to the UK to harvest his kidney in an NHS hospital.
In the first case of its kind in the UK, Nigerian politician Ike Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice and medical middleman Obinna Obeta were each jailed for their attempt to procure a poor street trader from Lagos for a transplant for the couple's daughter Sonia, 25.
In a televised sentencing today, Mr Justice Johnson recognised Ike Ekweremadu's 'substantial fall from grace' as he jailed him for nine years and eight months.
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