Nigerian Fugitive Franca Asemota Sentenced to 22 Years in the UK for Human Trafficking
Nigerian Fugitive Franca Asemota Sentenced to 22 Years in the UK for Human Trafficking
Nigerian fugitive Franca Asemota, who was extradited to the UK in January for human trafficking, has been sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Franca was convicted on August 3 at Isleworth Crown Court for eight counts of conspiracy to traffic persons for sexual exploitation, two counts of trafficking persons outside of the UK for sexual exploitation and two counts of assisting unlawful immigration.
Franca Asemota was reportedly part of a criminal network that forced dozens of teenage orphans and women from Nigeria into prostitution and slavery in the UK using ‘juju magic’ as a threat. Asemota, called ‘Auntie Franca’ by her victims, is said to have used Heathrow airport as a hub to traffic at least 40 girls and young women into Europe from remote Nigerian villages before her arrest.
Franca during her extradiction Image: Daily Mail
Her trafficking activities first came to light when Border Agency officials stopped two groups, in September and November 2011, travelling on false passports. Unfortunately, she fled the UK to Nigeria before she could be arrested. After three years of trying to locate Asemota, she was finally tracked down and captured by the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crime Commission in Benin City in March 2015.
Speaking on Asemota’s case, CPS London lawyer David Davies stated that Franca played a key role in exploiting the poverty and vulnerability of her victims with the aim of forcing them into prostitution to make money for criminals.
Meanwhile, Nigerians have reacted to her sentence and this is what they have to say.
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