Recently, news broke out about a 40-year-old man who had been held in modern-day slavery by a Nigerian couple, Mr. and Mrs. Edet, based in the UK.
Here’s what you don’t know about the story:
1. Mr. Emmanuel Edet, 61, is a trained obstetrician and gynaecologist while his 58-year-old wife Antan is a hospital ward manager.
2. They had enslaved Ofonime Sunday Inuk making him work “up to 17 hours a day” without pay for 25 years, making him cook, clean, garden and take care of their two sons.
3. The Edets changed Mr his name and added him to their family passport as their son when they brought him to the UK in 1989.
4. Mr. Inuk left his native Nigeria as a 14-year-old with the Edets, travelling first to Israel before arriving in Britain believing they would pay him for his work as a “houseboy” and provide him with an education.
5. The couple had seized his passport and threatened him with deportation if he contacted the police or left the house. They controlled what he wore, how he spoke and every part of his life.
6. They prevented him from having any social interaction with the family. He was made to sleep largely on the floor in hallways despite there often being a spare bedroom in the houses where the family lived.
7. Mr. Inuk had made attempts to escape and spoke to the police in 2005, but was left “a bit dejected” after being told by an officer it was a “family matter”.
Ten years later he contacted the Metropolitan Police again when he saw media reports about modern slavery and realised the life he was being made to lead was wrong. He also emailed the charity Hope for Justice, which in turn contacted Scotland Yard to co-ordinate his release.
8. Mr. Inuk gave his evidence from behind a screen so that he could not see his tormentors.
9. The couple, who denied the charges, were found guilty and convicted of false imprisonment, child cruelty, slavery and assisting unlawful immigration.
10. Today, Mr. Sunday Inuk is living a new life in the UK. He has a job, a home with his own bed and freedom to move, and he is studying. In his own words, he has hope and a future now.”
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