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Oh my God, just when you think you have heard it all !
A Nigerian couple, 24 year old Lizzy Idahosa and her husband 41 year old Jackson Omoruyi, have been found guilty in the UK of human trafficking and other charges.
Lizzy who is heavily pregnant was found guilty of 8 counts including trafficking, inciting women to prostitution and transferring criminal property, while her husband was found guilty of two counts of money laundering.
The couple had bought two women to the UK from Nigeria, after taking them through a ritual ceremony. According to the women aged 23 and 29, they had their pubic hair shaved and forced to eat live snakes and snails as part of the ritual to ensure their compliance and secrecy, and then flown to Britain in the belief that they were going to find a better life.
However, when they arrived in the UK they were put to work as prostitutes, working in brothels across England and Wales. The women were scared that if they didn't comply, they would face illness, madness, infertility and even death.
All the money they made was given to the couple which amounted to a sum of £70,000.
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This inhuman activity was discovered after police arrested the 23 year old at a brothel in Cardiff. She went ahead to explain how she had been having a difficult life in Nigeria after her mother died and she wanted to come to the UK to find her father. She then met Idahosa's sister who facilitated her travel arrangements.
When she arrived the UK, she was taken to a brothel without any explanations, there she met several women dressed in underwear, it soon became clear to her what was expected of her. She commenced work and has sexual intercourse with seven or eight men every day in brothels across the UK, including in Cardiff and Swansea.
She has paid a total of £45,000 to Jackson Omoruyi.
She has paid a total of £45,000 to Jackson Omoruyi.
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The second victim told the court she had paid the defendants £31,400 over two years after working in brothels in Cardiff, Swansea, Barking and East Croydon, and said she had worked in South Wales for a year and eight months.
The woman, who like her fellow victim cannot be named for legal reasons, said after a while she stopped working and changed her sim card so Idahosa could not contact her.
However, within a month she received a phone call from her mother in Nigeria.
'I had a call from my mum who told me Lizzy’s people had been to her house and threatened her, Lizzy said if I did not pay her she would kill my mum and make me go mad.'
Idahosa and Omoruyi, who were arrested at their home in London, denied any wrong doing.
But police checked their bank accounts and found a series of transfers with Omoruyi acting as a 'financial middle man'.
Idahosa had denied forcing the women to take part in a black magic ceremony, but claimed that she herself had been trafficked into the UK and forced to work as a prostitute.
She told the jury she did not know the two women had been trafficked.
'It was only when I told them I was trafficked into the country that I found out they were trafficked.' She said she made an oath with her trafficker before leaving Nigeria and was forced to eat the roast heart of a cockerel.
She said: 'I wouldn’t do the things they say I did because I’ve been through it.'
The jury was told that cash payments of several hundred pounds a time had been deposited into Omoruyi’s account from locations all over the country, including Glasgow, Sheffield and Southampton.
He claimed the money came from his friend. 'I am the kind of person who likes clothes and shoes and I’m known for that - I like to find bargains, It is not that it is any fraud money or anything. My account has not been used for anything like that.'
During an interview with police, he said: 'I am here to say I do not even know the people you are talking about - I have never seen them. I have never involved myself in that kind of activity in this country, even before this country. I have not and I would not.'
The woman, who like her fellow victim cannot be named for legal reasons, said after a while she stopped working and changed her sim card so Idahosa could not contact her.
However, within a month she received a phone call from her mother in Nigeria.
'I had a call from my mum who told me Lizzy’s people had been to her house and threatened her, Lizzy said if I did not pay her she would kill my mum and make me go mad.'
Idahosa and Omoruyi, who were arrested at their home in London, denied any wrong doing.
But police checked their bank accounts and found a series of transfers with Omoruyi acting as a 'financial middle man'.
Idahosa had denied forcing the women to take part in a black magic ceremony, but claimed that she herself had been trafficked into the UK and forced to work as a prostitute.
She told the jury she did not know the two women had been trafficked.
'It was only when I told them I was trafficked into the country that I found out they were trafficked.' She said she made an oath with her trafficker before leaving Nigeria and was forced to eat the roast heart of a cockerel.
She said: 'I wouldn’t do the things they say I did because I’ve been through it.'
The jury was told that cash payments of several hundred pounds a time had been deposited into Omoruyi’s account from locations all over the country, including Glasgow, Sheffield and Southampton.
He claimed the money came from his friend. 'I am the kind of person who likes clothes and shoes and I’m known for that - I like to find bargains, It is not that it is any fraud money or anything. My account has not been used for anything like that.'
During an interview with police, he said: 'I am here to say I do not even know the people you are talking about - I have never seen them. I have never involved myself in that kind of activity in this country, even before this country. I have not and I would not.'
The two are remanded in custody and will be sentenced next month.
Culled: DailyMail UK.
5 comments:
Omg see wickedness.
£70k ? These dudes are wicked meeeen!
Prostitution? Omg so unreal.
Idahosa, benin girl, that is what she will do now.
Send them to 20 years each. Wicked bastards.
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