A 21-year-old man raised pink flags after refusing to consent to an operation at a hospital in London.
Nigeria’s former deputy Senate president will go on trial in the UK in January for alleged organ harvesting, a choose has mentioned.
Ike Ekweremadu, 60, is accused together with his spouse, Beatrice, 56, their daughter, Sonia, 25, and a physician of bringing a person from Nigeria to have a kidney eliminated.
The 21-year-old man is alleged to have raised the alarm after refusing to consent to the operation following preliminary checks on the Royal Free Hospital in London.
The BBC reported that the Ekweremadu household allegedly handled the person like a slave earlier than he ran away and went to Staines police station in Surrey.
Ekweremadu is a senator for the opposition Peoples Democratic Celebration for Enugu State in southeast Nigeria.
Ekweremadu and his household have been arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport in June.
The household and the physician, Obina Obeta, 50, are accused of conspiracy to rearrange the journey of one other individual with a view of exploitation.
Prosecutors say the kidney was meant for Sonia.
The alleged offence is believed to have taken place between August 1 final yr and Could 5 this yr.
No pleas have been entered when the defendants appeared at London’s Central Legal Courtroom on Monday.
Ekweremadu and Obeta have been remanded into custody whereas Beatrice and Sonia have been launched on conditional bail.
Decide Mark Lucraft set one other listening to date for December 16 and introduced ahead the defendants’ trial from Could to January 31.
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