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Organ harvesting: UK court grants Ekweremadu’s wife bail after 31 days in custody

by Ebor Cletus Ralph Jr

Beatrice Ekweremadu, the wife of former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, was granted bail by a British court on Friday.

The duo has been held by police since June over allegations that they brought a Nigerian into the UK for organ harvesting.
When they showed up at the Old Bailey for the hearing on their bail application, the former deputy senate president, however, was denied release.

Judge Richard Marks, the Common Sergeant of London, approved Beatrice’s request for bail and set strict terms for her release.

He said: “The position is that I have granted bail to Beatrice subject to some fairly stringent conditions, but I have refused bail to Ike.”

The Ekweremadus were arrested at Heathrow Airport on June 21, after arriving on a flight from Turkey, following months of underground investigations into the allegations that they had smuggled an underage into the UK to harvest his kidney without his consent.

The said victim, David Ukpo who was later found out to be 21-years-old, allegedly escaped immediately they got to London and was homeless for three days before he turned up at Staines Police Station to report that the Senator and his wife had brought him into the UK illegally.

The prosecution counsel, Tim Probert-Wood, who objected to the bail application, argued that the case involved “exploitation and the harvesting of an organ.”

He said: “The case began on May 5, 2022 when the complainant presented himself at Staines Police Station and claimed he had been transported to this country for the purpose of his kidney being removed.

“He arrived on February 20, 2022 and was taken to Royal Free Hospital where tests were conducted.

“For the purpose he was there he did not consent to the taking of his kidney. He returned to the house he was staying and his treatment changed dramatically. He described being treated effectively as a slave.”

“The case began on 5 May 2022 when the complainant presented himself at Staines Police Station and claimed he had been transported to this country for the purpose of his kidney being removed.

“He arrived on 20th February 2022 and was taken to Royal Free Hospital where tests were conducted.

“For the purpose he was there he did not consent to the taking of his kidney. He returned to the house he was staying and his treatment changed dramatically. He described being treated effectively as a slave,” Probert-Wood had told the court.

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