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.
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.
Lord have mercy!!!!! 24 solid years???? WOWZA…..People are mean. I guess the guy is naive as well, he would have ran away or something. This people are heartless, letting him sleep under the stairs, imagine the kinda cold in the UK most times.
Wasted 24years of his life for nothing. Some people are utterly wicked.
My God such wickedness kept someone as a slave for 24yrs lord have mercy people can be so hearthless
Serves them right.I wish the sentence included ‘with hard labour’ so they will have a feeling of what it feels like to be a slave
OMG some people re just devil
He shuld be 38 or something by now *smh* wicked couple they should be sentenced to 24yrs
kai,that guy should be compensated oo
wickedness its not like dey not wel paid ooo.pure wickednes man inhumanity to man
praying he will recover all dt he has lost for d past 24 years
24years gone like that..It shall never be well with ths couple..wicked souls.
I heard dis on radio, I tot is even a joke, some people can be so mean, where will dis guy start fr now, 6years is even 2 small 4 dem, I just hope he gets compensated 4 dat 24years.
haba,that is pure wickedness
This is more than wickedness.
I hope others involve in dis abuse of mankind will learn from dis. The couple did not even pity his family
Evil people, they will riot in jail
See wickedness they could have at least educated him
Wicked souls.
wickedness