Nigerian politician faces sentencing in landmark UK organ plot ...Middle East

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LONDON: Nigeria’s former deputy Senate president faces up to life in jail in Britain today when he is sentenced for plotting to harvest a man’s kidney for his sick daughter.In the first UK case of its kind, Ike Ekweremadu, 60, was found guilty in March at London’s Old Bailey criminal court of conspiring to traffic the young street trader into Britain for his body part.Also convicted were Ekweremadu’s wife Beatrice, 56, and Obinna Obeta, 50, a doctor who acted as a middle man in the plot. They too will be sentenced today.The Ekweremadus’ daughter Sonia, 25, shed tears as she was cleared of the same charge after jurors deliberated for nearly 14 hours.In Britain, it is legal to donate a kidney,

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