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Kelly-Ann Mills

Wealthy couple jailed for bringing man to UK to harvest kidney for sick daughter

A wealthy couple who planned to traffic a young man into the UK so they could harvest his kidney for their sick daughter have been sentenced.

Ike Ekweremadu was given nine years and eight months in the first successful UK prosecution for an organ harvesting plot, alongside his wife Beatrice, who was jailed for four and a half years and Dr Obinna Obeta, who was jailed for 10 years.

Ike and Beatrice Ekweremadu along with their 25-year-old daughter Sonia faced trial at the Old Bailey.

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