A British couple have been jailed for six years each for keeping a
Nigerian immigrant as a slave for more than two decades, a London court
clerk said.
Emmanuel Edet, 61, and Antan Edet, 58, were sentenced at Harrow Crown
Court in northwest London late on Monday after being found guilty last
month of child cruelty, slavery and assisting in illegal immigration.
The couple brought the man to Britain in 1989 when he was 14 years old, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
They told the teenager they would educate and pay him, but they
forced him to work long hours for no pay and threatened him with
deportation if he tried to escape, prosecutors said.
He received 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.
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 had to eat alone and typically slept on the floor of the hall,
they said.
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