On Monday, October 31, 2022, there will be no pre-trial hearing in the case of alleged organ harvesting involving former Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice. They will be informed of the case’s future appearance at the hearing.
Following the final hearing in August, Ekweremadu and his wife were anticipated to formally submit their plea on Monday.
However, the Old Baileys Criminal Court’s presiding judge, it was learnt, is away on vacation.
The UK’s Modern Slavery Act, passed in 2015, is said to have been broken by the Ekweremadus.
The pair was detained in June when a man named David Ukpo Nwamini told British police that he had been brought to the country to help Ekweremadu’s ailing daughter who required a kidney transplant.