Franca Asemota from Benin, Edo State, has been found guilty of eight
counts of conspiracy to traffic young girls. Ms
Asemota forced dozens of teenage orphans into prostitution and slavery
using the threat of witchcraft. She used Heathrow as a hub to traffic at
least 40 girls and young women into Europe from remote villages in
Nigeria after promising them jobs, education and a better life.
She then
used 'witchcraft', threats and violence to force them in to the
European sex trade. She was later arrested in Nigeria, extradited to the
UK for trial and has now been sentenced.
