Ekweremandu remanded in prison till 2023 in Uk

NIGERIA'S FORMER DEPUTY SENATE PRESIDENT  REMANDED IN BRITISH  PRISON  CUSTODY TILL OCTOBER 2023 

The travail of Nigeria's former deputy senate president Ike Ekweremandu continues in Uk as his case In alleged organ harvesting plot  was adjourned till October 2023 when his provisional trial would begin in London high court.

On Thursday, his wife Beatrice Ekweremadu, who is on bail, appeared at the Old Bailey for a plea and directions hearing.

Ekweremadu and Dr. Obinna Obeta, the third accused attended the session by video link from Wandsworth and Belmarsh prisons.

 

The defendants were not asked to enter pleas during the hearing and spoke only to confirm their identities.

Judge Richard Marks QC said the case would be heard by a High Court judge.

He identified a provisional trial from May 2 next year with an estimated length of three to four weeks.

A further plea and case management hearing was rescheduled for October 31.

 

The judge granted Mrs. Ekweremadu continued conditional bail and extended the remand of Ekweremadu and Obeta.

Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice, and Obeta face a charge of an alleged organ-harvesting plot.

They were accused of the plot after allegedly taking a young Nigerian off the streets of Lagos and arranging his passage to London.

Prosecutors claim they planned to have his kidney removed at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, northwest London, so it could be given to their daughter who suffers from kidney failure.

The man is said to have refused to consent to the procedure after undergoing tests.

The Ekweremadus, from Willesden Green, north-west London, allegedly treated him as a slave before he ‘escaped’ and went to Staines police station in Surrey.

The trial continues in 2023.