Former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria Ike Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice, and Doctor Obinna Obeta were sentenced to prison by a judge at the Central Criminal Court, widely known as the Old Bailey.
At a sentencing hearing on Friday, Ekweremadu was sentenced to nine years and eight months in prison; his wife, Beatrice, was sentenced to four years and six months in prison; and Obeta (Doctor) was sentenced to ten years in prison.
The sentencing follows their March conviction for flying in a Nigerian man to obtain his kidney for the couple's ailing daughter, Sonia.
The three were convicted of organising or enabling the entry of a young Nigerian man into the United Kingdom in order to get his kidney on behalf of the Ekwemeradus' ailing daughter, Sonia.
The jury concluded that Ekweremadu, his wife, and their doctor plotted to bring the 21-year-old Lagos street trader to London in order to exploit him for his kidney.
The decision is thought to be the first of its sort under the UK's Modern Slavery Act of 2015.
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