A doctor and his nurse wife who kept a man in forced servitude for almost a quarter of a century after illegally bringing him to Britain have both been jailed for six years.
Former NHS obstetrician Emmanuel Edet, 61, and midwife Antan Edet, 58, kept fellow Nigerian Ofonime Sunday Inuk as a “houseboy” after telling immigration officials he was their teenage son when they arrived here in 1989.
Over the next 24 years he worked unpaid up to 17 hours a day looking after the couple’s two sons, cooking, cleaning and gardening. He was forced to sleep on a hall floor. He eventually managed to alert a charity to his plight in 2013.
Sentencing the couple at Harrow Crown Court, Judge Graham Arran said their treatment of Mr Inuk, now 40, left him “conditioned” to his plight.
Judge Arran said: “He was conditioned to the extent that he did not ask for what he wanted because he expected his request to be refused.”
Dr and Mrs Edet, from Perivale, north west London, were found guilty last month of cruelty to a child under 16, servitude and assisting unlawful immigration.
