A UK judge has granted the wife of Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Beatrice, bail while remanding her husband in prison, following their arrest over alleged organ harvesting.
Ekweremadu, a lawyer and former deputy president of the Nigerian Senate, and Beatrice, an accountant, appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday for a bail hearing.
The Common Sergeant of London, Judge Richard Marks, said: “The position is that I have granted bail to Beatrice subject to some fairly stringent conditions but I have refused bail to Ike.”
Prosecutors are not appealing the decision, the court heard.
Prosecutor Tim Probert-Wood said previously that the case involved “exploitation and the harvesting of an organ.”
Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice were arrested in the UK weeks ago for plotting to traffic a homeless man into the UK to harvest a kidney for their daughter.
Mrs Ekweremadu, 55, together with her husband, Ike Ekweremadu, 60, allegedly trafficked the 21-year-old to London from the streets of Lagos in order to harvest his organ.
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