Senior Nigerian politician and wife guilty of organ harvesting plot

Members of the Ekweremadu family were on trial at the Old Bailey in London (PA)

A wealthy Nigerian politician has been found guilty of an organ-harvesting plot involving a UK hospital in a legal first of its kind.

Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60; his wife Beatrice, 56;  and medical “middleman” Dr Obinna Obeta, 50; were found guilty at the Old Bailey of conspiring to arrange the travel of a young man with a view to exploiting him for his body part.