Nigerian couple charged with plotting to get youngster to UK to reap organs
Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, had been each charged with conspiracy to rearrange journey of one other individual with a view to exploitation, particularly organ harvesting, police stated.
Ekweremadu is an opposition senator within the southern state of Enugu, and in addition a former deputy senate president.
Police stated they’d been alerted to the alleged plan following experiences made from doable offenses beneath trendy slavery laws. The kid concerned has been taken to security and work was beneath approach to offer further assist.
The couple appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Courtroom in London the place the court docket was instructed the kid concerned was a 15-year-old boy, the BBC reported.
The prosecution instructed the court docket that the Lawyer Normal’s consent was required for the case to proceed due to jurisdictional points, the BBC added, and the couple had been remanded in custody till the subsequent court docket look on July 7.
Neither Ekweremadu nor his spouse may very well be reached for remark.
