A British couple was found guilty on Tuesday of keeping a Nigerian immigrant enslaved for more than two decades, forcing him to work for no pay and threatening him with deportation if he tried to escape, prosecutors said.

Emanuel Edet, 61, and Antan Edet, 58, held their victim captive from the time he was brought to Britain when he was 14 years old, said the Crown Prosecution Service.

The husband and wife were convicted at Harrow Crown Court in northwest London on charges of child cruelty, slavery and assisting in illegal immigration.

They had told the teen when they brought him from Nigeria in 1989 that they would pay him and provide him with an education, prosecutors said.

Instead, the victim, now 40, was forced to cook, clean, garden and care for the couple’s children without any pay for up to 17 hours a day, they said. He was forced to eat alone and typically slept on hallway floors, they said.

He got no education and had only very limited contact with his family and the outside world. The couple took his passport, and he had no identity documents, prosecutors said.

Prosecutor Damaris Lakin said the Edets told their captive he would be arrested as an illegal immigrant and deported if he left the house and contacted police.

“He believed this and felt trapped and completely dependent on the Edets,” Lakin said in a statement. “Emanuel and Antan Edet have cruelly robbed this victim of 24 years of his life. They have treated him with complete contempt.”

“This was a shocking case of modern day slavery,” he said.

The convictions came on the first day of a two-day Trust Women conference in London on women’s rights and human trafficking held by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Prosecutors said the Edets had changed the victim’s name and added him to their family passport as their son when they brought him into Britain.

REUTERS

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/11/18/british-couple-keep-nigerian-immigrant-as-slave-for-24-years/
Lalasticlala!

*Emmanuel and Antan Edet

*Docked: Emmanuel and Antan Edet

That was wicked!

Emmanuel Edet, Anan Edet. Those names aren't British, we all know they're Nigerian emigrants.
just because they're British citizens doesn't make them any more British than Nigerian.

I still fail to wonder why people will choose to be exceedingly cruel to their fellow man. And to even think some people even treat their dogs better than a human being.

No doubt, these people are wicked...but the guy is 40! a big fool @ 40, I must say how did this happen successfully for 24yrs? How? Na donkey?

You had the option of being deported back to Nigeria to struggle for yourself Or work as a slave in the UK..which would you choose?

Eleyii gidigan o

O my God!! I did not expect the kind of names i saw there. Later we would start blaming the whites for slavery.

this is barbaric.......





this is slavery at its peak.

gawd... dats so inhumane...... and d mumu couple just stay like zombie

midolian:
No doubt, these people are wicked...but The guy is 40!.. A fool @ 40, I must say how did this happen successfully for 24yrs? How? Na donkey?

Don't forget his orientation was changed right from when he was 14...

tasceige:


Don't forget his orientation was change right from when he was 14...

lool..bro, forget that one abeg! The guy is just a dunce, if not this wouldn't have happened successfully for good 26yrs. Cos from my calculation, its not 24yrs.

You had the option of being deported to Nigeria to struggle for yourself OR remain a slave in the UK for years..which would you choose? At 14, I would have gone for option 1..

Dis is Real wickedness,If na whitepple do dis nw na anoda tin.

Dis is unfair,I tink d court shld let dem pay 4 all d years he has bn wit dem.

HE WOULD HAVE MADE D MONEY IN NIGERIA. UR GLORY NO DEY THAT COUNTRY UR MAMA TELL U, U NO LISTEN 24GOOD YEARS NA WAOH

midolian:


http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/11/18/british-couple-keep-nigerian-immigrant-as-slave-for-24-years/
Lalasticlala!

*Emmanuel and Antan Edet

*Docked: Emmanuel and Antan Edet

This is wickedness! They should be deported in the guy's stead.

When they say a fool at 40 is a fool for ever means he has been a fool from 0-39...

Took him to get to the age of 40 before it dawned on him his no longer a baby.

Reason I luv my Igbo boyz cous by 40 he would be the one feeding the same family..

They have inflicted great pain and suffering to the poor guy. Some humans can be extremely wicked.

Some people get mind sha

end time

End time modern slavery

I must go abroad mentality.

If they could do it to their own brother,

Then our problem is not only racism but Man's inhumanity to man.

Black on black slavery

joseph1832:
Emmanuel Edet, Anan Edet. Those names aren't British, we all know they're Nigerian emigrants.
just because they're British citizens doesn't make them any more British than Nigerian.
I still fail to wonder why people will choose to be exceedingly cruel to their fellow man. And to even think some people even treat their dogs better than a human being.

some people derive joy in tormenting others

PLANETMARS:
I blame Biafra for this end time slave

i know u don't have sense, buh at least, pretend u do nah




N.B: i'm not Igbo

End Time slavery...

This is bad, pretty bad

[size=15pt]See wickedness at its peak and superlative mugu at 40[/size]

From Ancient To Modern Slavery

In Lasis69 voice

End time wickedness

End Time Slavery

The guy must be Okon