Friday, May 8, 2015

Nigerian 'slave' tells jury of how he was punched in the eye by wife of NHS doctor who 'owned him for 24 years' because he was using his phone

Dr Emmanuel Edet, right, and his wife Antan, left, are accused of keeping Ofonime Inuk at their home in Perivale, north-west London for 24 years after it was alleged they smuggled him in to Britain as a teenager

A senior hospital nurse accused with her husband of keeping a man as a slave punched the alleged victim in his right eye when she spotted him with his phone in the kitchen, a court heard today. 

Nigerian Ofonime Inuk, 39, claims he was kept a slave by an NHS doctor and his wife for 24 years after being smuggled into Britain.
Emmanuel Edet, 60, a trained obstetrician and gynaecologist, and his wife Antan, 58, a senior sister at a hospital, are accused of stripping Mr Inuk of his passport and making him work up to 17 hours a day. 

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