Nigerian Couple in the UK Jailed For Keeping Man as Slave For 24 Years

A 61-year-old Nigerian NHS doctor, Emmanuel Edet, and his nurse wife, Antan Edet, 58, have earned a six-year prison sentence at Harrow Crown Court after they were found guilty of smuggling a Nigerian man, Ofonime Sunday Inuk, into the UK at age 14 and keeping him as a ‘houseboy’ for 24 years without pay.

According to reports, the court heard Mr Inuk, the eldest of eight children from a quite poor family, left Nigeria in 1989 to try and get an education and send money home to help his mother and seven siblings.

He was hired by the Edets as a ‘houseboy’ and taken first to Israel before the family moved to the UK, and had hoped his dreams to help his poor family would soon come true, however, he was held captive without pay for 24 years.

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He claimed his passport was seized by the couple and was allowed only limited access to the outside world as he spent years looking after the couple’s children and cleaning their home.

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He was also forced to sleep on a piece of foam on a hall floor under the stairs and was constantly verbally abused and forbidden from speaking to people.

After hearing on the radio about another slavery case he was inspired to seek help by contacting a charity and the couple were arrested.