Top Nigerian Senator Charged in UK Over Child Organ-Harvesting Plot

FW Pomeroy's statue of Justice stands atop the Central Criminal Court building, Old Bailey, London on Jan. 8, 2019. PA Media

A top Nigerian senator and his wife have been charged in the UK over an alleged plot to bring a child into the country for organ-harvesting.

London’s Metropolitan police said that Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55 were charged on Thursday and are due to appear in court in Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court later the same day.