African immigrant, Josephine Iyamu, aged 51, was jailed on Wednesday this week for trafficking five Nigerian women to Germany to work as prostitutes after she subjected them to a number of bizarre voodoo rituals. The rituals included the victims being ordered to eat the hearts of chickens and drink blood containing worms, and them being cut by a priest and having black powder rubbed into their wounds.
Iyamu, who was based in London and worked for the National Health Service as a nurse, was jailed for 14 years and is the first British citizen to be prosecuted for offences relating to the Modern Slavery Act.
The judge in this case, Judge Richard Bond, described Iyamu as having “a complete disregard for the welfare” of the five Nigerian woman after she sent them to Germany on inflatable boats across the Mediterranean Sea. The women were rescued from the boat and taken to a camp in Italy. ...
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