A wealthy Nigerian politician, his academic wife and a 'middleman' doctor were today all found guilty of trafficking a penniless market trader to the UK to harvest his kidney in an NHS hospital.

In the first case of its kind in the UK, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, all face up to ten years in jail after they were convicted at the Old Bailey of conspiring to exploit a young man from Lagos who said he was 'treated like a slave'.