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| UK nurse is first person convicted under modern slavery laws |
| 2018-06-29 |
| [THEGUARDIAN] A British nurse has become the first person to be convicted under new modern slavery laws, after being found guilty of trafficking five Nigerian women to Germany to work as hookers. Josephine Iyamu was prosecuted under the Modern Slavery Act involving victims who have no connection to the UK but have been victimised by a Brit. Jurors were told the 51-year-old Liberia-born British citizen forced the women to swear oaths to hand over money to her during "juju" ceremonies. These included forcing women to eat chicken hearts, drink blood containing worms, and have powder rubbed into cuts, the court heard. Iyamu, formerly of Bermondsey in London, then arranged for the women to be trafficked across the Mediterranean, with one being told to pay a "bill" of €37,000 (£32,700). She was convicted at Birmingham crown court of five counts of arranging or facilitating travel for sexual exploitation. Prosecutors said the Voodoo rituals gave Iyamu crushing psychological control over the women, who were too afraid to challenge her or to fail to pay her back tens of thousands of euros she charged them to be trafficked into Germany. Jurors also convicted Iyamu of perverting the course of justice by arranging for relatives of the complainants in Nigeria to be tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! . Her husband, Efe Ali-Imaghodor, 60, was acquitted of doing acts intending to pervert the course of justice. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said Iyamu forced victims to take oaths that bound their loyalty to her on pain of death. Iyamu, who was made a British citizen in 2009 and worked as an NHS agency nurse, declared a modest income of around £14,500 in 2016-17. But inquiries after Iyamu’s arrest in 2017 found she was able to spend thousands on international air travel and to afford a large home in Benin City in Nigeria. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Jurors were told the 51-year-old Liberia-born British citizen forced the women to swear oaths to hand over money to her during "juju" ceremonies. Should have made a defense that she was a union organizer. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-06-29 08:49 |
| #1 Iyamu, who was made a British citizen in 2009 So, not really a Brit, and exploiting her own. Both country'men' and gender. Can't say enough bad things about a person like this. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-06-29 00:33 |