A UK court has allowed for the bail of Beatrice, wife of Senator Ike Ekeweremadu who is being detained alongside her husband in the United Kingdom.
The court has however refused to grant the husband bail.
Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who once served as a Deputy President of the Senate, was arrested alongside his wife over allegations of a scheme to traffic a young man into the UK to harvest his Kidney for their sick daughter.
The senator and his wife appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday for a bail hearing, according to Daily Mail.
55-year-old Beatrice is charged with arranging or being an accessory in the trafficking of another person with a view to exploitation, between August 1 last year and May 5, under the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
“The position is that I have granted bail to Beatrice subject to some fairly stringent conditions, but I have refused the bail to Ike,” Richard Marks, the Common Serjeant of London was quoted as saying.
The prosecutors however did not appeal the decision of the court.
Authorities had also accused a doctor of plotting with the senator and his wife to traffic the said victim into the country to harvest his kidney for their daughter.
The doctor who identified as Obinna Obeta of Southwark in south London was charged under the Modern Slavery Act with arranging the transportation of the victim with a plot to have him exploited between last August and May, Daily Mail reported.
In another charge, the doctor was alleged to have conspired with the couple to arrange or facilitate the travel of the young man with a view to having him exploited, namely organ harvesting.
The senator and his wife denied any wrongdoing but were still taken to detention following their arrest at Heathrow Airport on June 21 as they arrived on a flight from Turkey.
Although the Metropolitan Police said the victim was 15, he was said to have refused to consent to the surgery after undergoing tests at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead north-west London.
The Westminster Magistrates’ Court later ruled that the victim was not a minor after confirming his age to be 21.
All three of them (Ekweremadu, Beatrice, and Obeta) are due to appear at the Old Bailey on the 4th of August.
