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UK jury finds Nigerian senator guilty of organ harvesting plot

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A jury in London on Thursday found Nigeria’s former deputy Senate president guilty of plotting to harvest a street trader’s kidney for his sick daughter, in the first UK case of its kind.

Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and a doctor, Obinna Obeta, 50, were found guilty at the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, of conspiring to exploit the young man from Lagos for his body part.

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