Organ trafficking: More trouble for Ekweremadu as UK court convicts him, wife, daughter

The Old Bailey court in the United Kingdom as convicted former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, over charges of organ trafficking.

After a six-weeks trial, the couple, along with their daughter, Sonia, and a medical doctor, Dr Obinna Obeta, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a 21-year-old Lagos street trader to London to exploit him for his kidney.

The judge, Justice Jeremy Johnson, will pass a sentence at a later date, Guardian UK reports.

Recall that Ekweremadu and his wife were arrested in the United Kingdom last year for allegedly trafficking a young man into the country to harvest his kidney for Sonia in an £80,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London.