Nigerian politician, wife and medical 'middleman' jailed for organ harvesting plot.

Nigerian politician, wife and medical 'middleman' jailed for organ harvesting plot.
The case marked the first time defendants have been convicted under the Modern Slavery Act of an organ harvesting conspiracy. Though it is lawful to donate a kidney, it becomes criminal if money or another material advantage is rewarded.

Nigerian politician, wife and medical 'middleman' jailed for organ harvesting plot.
A Nigerian senator, his wife and a medical "middleman" have been jailed for conspiring to traffic a market trader to the UK to harvest his kidney.

Politician Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, stood trial accused of a conspiracy to bring the man to Britain from Lagos so he could provide an organ for their 25-year-old daughter Sonia Ekweremadu.

The couple, along with medical "middleman" Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were found guilty in the Old Bailey in March.