The Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, UK, has sentenced former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, to nine years and eight months in prison for organ harvesting.

BBC reports that his wife, Beatrice, was handed four years and six months jail term during the sentencing on Friday.

On March 23, the jury pronounced a guilty verdict on the senator, his wife, Beatrice, and Obinna Obeta, a doctor who acted as the middleman.

The jury held that they conspired to bring the 21-year-old at the centre of the matter to London to exploit him for his kidney.

Details later…