Three members of an international prostitution ring that
smuggled a Nigerian woman into the UK to work as a sex
slave under the threat of a voodoo curse are facing jail
today.Olusoji Oluwafemi, 44, Johnson Olayinka, 45, and
Florence Obadiaru, 48, were convicted of trafficking the
woman into the UK for sexual exploitation and arranging for
her transfer to Italy.
The gang conned the innocent 23-year-old into flying to
Heathrow Airport on a bogus passport with the promise of
education, a job and a new home.
Before leaving Nigeria, she was raped and forced to go
through a black magic ‘juju’ death ritual to prevent her
running away.
According to Mailonline,when the woman arrived in London,
her employment failed to materialise. Instead, she was told
she was destined to work as a sex slave in Italy.
The plan was only thwarted when Italian authorities spotted
her forged ID and sent her back to the UK.
The victim, who only spoke a little English, had been
recruited by a Nigerian local called Beneditta in her
home village near Benin City.Her family had struggled
financially since the death of her father in 2008, but
she aspired to become a nurse.In February 2011,
Beneditta offered to help the young woman by
sending her to England to be educated properly and
get a job.She was told the cost would be £40,000 -
which she would have to repay to the organisers.
She
had no idea at all what £40,000 was in her own
currency, her life had been very hard after her father
died, and she jumped at the chance to be educated
and be trained for a job, and get away from the
desperation and misery of her current family
situation.She was very excited, a naive young girl, at
the prospect of going abroad.’
She was sent to theNigerian capital of Lagos on
March 23, 2011, to meet a man called Felis who made
her a false passport and coached her in getting
through UK immigration.While he was doing that, he
began to sexually assault her’,
That led him to beat
her with a belt and that in turn led to him raping her
that night.’When she complained to Beneditta the next
morning, she was told: ‘It was what you should have
expected’.She was then told to pose for photos with a
man who would pretend to be her husband.In
September 2011 she was summoned to the west
African country of Benin to get a visa.The woman was
then told to swear an oath to repay the money in a
ceremony that involved cutting her armpit and pubic
hair and taking finger nail clippings.
She was driven to Lagos on September 12, 2011 and
put on a plane to the UK, meeting Olayinka at
Heathrow Airport.
Olayinka, calling himself ‘Mike’,
checked her into the Marbella Hotel in Peckham,
south London, and took away her money and
passport.She was next taken to the house of
Obadiaru, an old friend of Beneditta’s, and kept there
for a few weeks with no sign of a job or
education.Obadiaru’s son, who suffers from learning
difficulties, groped her on the first night in the house
in Brockley, southeast London.But when she
complained, Obadiaru allegedly told her: ‘What do you
think you are here for?’The woman was told she was
being sent to Italy on October 3, 2011, and collected
another false passport from Olayinka’s home.‘It was
then for the first time that this very young girl from a
small village in Africa, miles away from home,
realised she was about to be sent to Italy to be forced
into prostitution’
She came to that gradual realisation, and she
suddenly remembered hearing conversations between
some men and their girls in Italy.She couldn’t speak
Italian and there was no question of her being able to
work in Italy in the normal sense.She became very
upset and fearful of what awaited her.
The gang’s plan
was thwarted by Italian immigration officials, who
stopped the woman on an obviously forged passport
at Milan Airport and sent her straight back to the
UK.After she was detained by immigration officials,
the woman led them to the alleged identity factory in
Osoba’s flat in South Bermondsey, southeast London,
and laptops which had been used to make false
documents by Olayinka.
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