Alleged organ-harvest plot victim travelled to the UK to ‘work’, court told
The man was allegedly brought to the UK to donate a kidney to the sick daughter of a wealthy Nigerian politician.
A Nigerian street trader at the centre of an alleged organ-harvesting plot has told jurors he thought he was coming to Britain to work.
The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was allegedly brought to the UK to donate a kidney to the sick daughter of wealthy Nigerian politician Ike Ekweremadu in exchange for a cash reward.
But giving evidence at the Old Bailey on Monday, he told jurors he did not even know why he was being taken to see a doctor.
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