{"id":12838,"date":"2023-03-23T13:26:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12838"},"modified":"2023-03-23T13:26:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:26:29","slug":"ike-ekweramadu-wife-beatrice-guilty-of-organ-trafficking-says-uk-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12838","title":{"rendered":"Ike Ekweramadu, Wife Beatrice Guilty Of Organ Trafficking, Says UK Court"},"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 man from Lagos for his kidney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6696,5303,5307],"class_list":["post-12838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ike-ekweramadu","tag-organ-trafficking","tag-uk-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12840,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838\/revisions\/12840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}