Three Nigerians, Olusoji Oluwafemi, Johnson
Olayinka and Florence Obadiaru have been jailed in Britain for human
trafficking.
The three human smugglers were jailed for a
total of 13 years for trafficking a woman for sexual exploitation and arranging
for her transfer to Italy Olusoji Oluwafemi, 44, Johnson Olayinka, 45, and
Florence Obadiaru, 48, were described by United Kingdom’s Daily Mail as “the
London connection in a global trafficking conspiracy”.
Mastermind and counterfeiter Oluwafemi, who
coordinated the British side of the operation, was jailed for six-and-a-half years.
Johnson Olayinka, 45, who collected the victim
from Heathrow and organised her false UK passport, was jailed for
four-and-a-half years.
Florence Obadiaru, 48, who kept the victim at
her home in London for two-and-a-half weeks before she left for Italy, was
jailed for two years.
Sentencing them, the judge, Rebecca Poulet
said, “This was a sophisticated and carefully planned operation in Nigeria
which must have cost a considerable amount of money to the traffickers.
“The
expected returns were also considerable. She was subjected to a juju ritual
with the threat of death. She would have been forced into controlled
prostitution as she had no possible way in which she could conceivably support
herself in Italy”.
It was reported that they deceived a 23-year-old
lady into flying to Heathrow on a fake passport with the promise of education,
a job and a new home.
However upon arriving, she was raped, beaten
and subjected to a ‘juju’ ritual before being sent to Italy where she was
forced to prostitute on the streets.
The victim’s terrible ordeal was only uncovered
when officials in Milan spotted her forged passport and sent her back to London
where she was saved by police.
Investigators believed the 23-year-old victim,
whose communication in English was barely passable, was one of many victims of
the Nigeria-based organised crime group.
The trio was in constant contact with a shadowy
‘fixer’ woman who prowled poor Nigerian villages looking for young women to
exploit.
The woman, who remains at the centre of an
international manhunt, also supplied woman to another crime gang that was
smashed last year.
Source: Punch
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