{"id":1018,"date":"2023-03-23T13:20:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2023-03-23T13:20:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:20:59","slug":"united-kingdom-court-finds-senator-ike-ekweramadu-wife-beatrice-and-dr-obinna-obeta-guilty-of-organ-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/united-kingdom-court-finds-senator-ike-ekweramadu-wife-beatrice-and-dr-obinna-obeta-guilty-of-organ-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom Court Finds Senator Ike Ekweramadu, Wife Beatrice, And Dr. Obinna Obeta Guilty Of Organ Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were convicted of conspiring to exploit the man from Lagos for his kidney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prosecutors told the Old Bailey the organ was to be removed and given to the couple&#8217;s daughter, Sonia, aged 25. She was cleared of the same charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The victim, a street trader from Lagos, was brought to the UK last year to provide a kidney in an \u00a380,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sentencing will follow. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Source: BBC<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were convicted of conspiring to exploit the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}