GUILTY UK - Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu and Senator Ike Ekweremadu, charged with conspiring to bring child to the UK to harvest organs, June 2022

[Ched]

Man and woman charged with conspiring to bring child to the UK to harvest organs, Met Police say

Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, and Ike Ekweremadu, 60, have been remanded in custody and will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court today.

news.sky.com

 

[Ched]

Charges were brought against the pair, who are from Nigeria, following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police's Specialist Crime team.

A child has now been safeguarded.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

If guilty, what is wrong with people (!) and thank goodness they were caught and the child is safe.

 

[Ched]

Interestingly, there is an Ike Ekweremadu who is a Nigerian senator, with a wife named Nwanneka Ekweremadu….

 

[Ched]

Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu and a woman have been charged with conspiring to arrange to bring a child to the UK to harvest organs, the Metropolitan Police said.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1539962831973412864

 

[Silverlink]

Interestingly, there is an Ike Ekweremadu who is a Nigerian senator, with a wife named Nwanneka Ekweremadu….

Nigerian media appears to be confirming this is him.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1539932958479601664

 

[Ched]

Prominent Nigerian politican Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 55, are appearing at Uxbridge Mags' Court on suspicion of plotting to harvest the organs of a child in the UK (photo)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1539971584718360576

 

[Ched]

Nigerian senator & woman charged over 'plot to harvest organs of child in UK'

A Nigerian politician and a woman have been charged with trying to bring a child to the UK to harvest their organs. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a district senator, and Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, are…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[Ched]

I’m struggling to actually take this in today , what is the world coming to . Nigerian politician and wife charged with child organ-harvesting plot

 

[SuziQ]

What did I just read? Has this couple done this with any other children?

 

[moonriverfarm]

Nigeria makes the news again and not for anything good.

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

And this is just ONE case of this where people got caught... it must happen successfully often for it to be a thing... I just can't...

ugh, what did we just read indeed.

 

[Dotta]

"The 15-year-old was given the passport of a 41-year-old in order to get into the UK, but did not know he was there to donate a kidney until he went a hospital appointment"

London doctor turned down Nigerian 'organ-harvesting parents'

Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and Beatrice Ekweremadu, 55, are accused of taking the homeless youngster to the UK from Nigeria to transplant his organs to their daughter who has kidney failure.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Dotta]

Doctor charged over 'plot with Nigerian senator to traffic man to UK'

Obinna Obeta, 50, has been charged under the Modern Slavery Act with arranging the travel of a 21-year-old man with a view to him being exploited between August last year and this May.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Marg from Oz]

Wow! I had to read this twice at first. I couldn't believe what I was reading. I am just glad this young boy was not giving his organs in a voodoo ritual that has happened before. I hope this young boy is well looked after. These people should have gone through the right channels to get help for their daughter. MOO

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Whether he's 15 or 21 (as the last article linked above states) he was so vulnerable, being homeless and impoverished. Thank goodness the doctor at the hospital is a good one.
Shocking crime.

 

[Ched]

politician and his wife who are accused of a plot to harvest a man’s kidney after he had been flown from Nigeria to the UK are due to stand trial in May next year.
Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, allegedly conspired to traffic a 21-year-old man so that his organ could be removed and given to their daughter.

The alleged victim is said to have refused to consent to the procedure after undergoing tests at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north-west London, and is said to have been treated as a slave by the Ekweremadus before escaping.

Politician accused of ‘organ harvesting plot’ to stand trial next May

A politician and his wife who are accused of a plot to harvest a man’s kidney after he had been flown from Nigeria to the UK are due to stand trial in May next year.

www.standard.co.uk

 

[Dotta]

These perps are not only despicable but stupid too!

In order for the transplant to be successful there must be tissue compatibility and a donor "from the street" is simply silly.

Usually a family member is a donor, and even then one can't be sure of success.

MOO

 

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politician and his wife who are accused of a plot to harvest a man’s kidney after he had been flown from Nigeria to the UK are due to stand trial in May next year.
Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, allegedly conspired to traffic a 21-year-old man so that his organ could be removed and given to their daughter.

The alleged victim is said to have refused to consent to the procedure after undergoing tests at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north-west London, and is said to have been treated as a slave by the Ekweremadus before escaping.

Politician accused of ‘organ harvesting plot’ to stand trial next May

A politician and his wife who are accused of a plot to harvest a man’s kidney after he had been flown from Nigeria to the UK are due to stand trial in May next year.

www.standard.co.uk

The UK has to have some of the tightest controls around organ donation in the world, so this was a stupid idea.

Given that the kidney was for their daughter, I doubt they've done this before.

I love Africa, have traveled to eastern and Western Africa and cannot wait to go back. Love it or hate it, obviously poverty is rampant. I'm shocked these people, who almost certainly have very high means, didn't just offer to buy the organ. Neither legal nor ethical but far less terrible than kidnapping someone. I also wonder if money was involved in this deal.

 

[Luwin]

Nigerian senator and wife on trial over alleged organ harvesting plot

A Nigerian senator recruited a Lagos street vendor promising a new life in London, Old Bailey hears.

www.bbc.co.uk