See what happened to female nurse caught using Charm for human trafficking

A British hospital nurse who used 'voodoo' magic to traffic Nigerian prostitutes into Europe was jailed for 14 years on Wednesday.

 

The Nigerian politician, Josephine Iyamu, used a witch doctor to convince her victims they were under her control and exploited them to fund a lavish lifestyle including jaunts to Europe and £700 designer shoes.

 

The 51-year-old was a ringleader of an international human trafficking crime network and lived in a huge Nigerian mansion complete with a servants' quarters.

 

Iyamu would make the vulnerable women undergo 'Juju' ceremonies which would involve them drinking blood containing worms and eating the heart of a chicken.

 

Iyamu was handed a 14-year jail sentence at Birmingham Crown Court on Wednesday, in the first case of its kind in the UK as she becomes the first British national prosecuted for Modern Slavery Act offences after trafficking victims outside the UK.