‘I Was Crying and Shaking’ Witness Tells UK Organ Harvesting Trial as He Recalls Hearing About Kidney Transplant

He says telling police he was 15 was an 'act of frustration'

Sonia Ekweremadu outside the Old Bailey, in central London, where she is on trial, on Feb. 9, 2023. PA

LONDON—A street trader from Nigeria has told a trial of his shocked reaction when he was told by a doctor in a London hospital he was there to donate one of his kidneys to someone, who turned out to be the daughter of a wealthy politician.

Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a senator in Nigeria and a former deputy president of the country’s senate, and his wife Beatrice, 56, are accused of bringing the mobile phone accessories hawker to the UK with a medical visa in order for him to donate a kidney to save the life of their daughter Sonia.