The brothel
madam who used black magic to force young girls to become sex slaves
and made them eat live snakes has been ordered to pay back more than
£20,000 out of her profits. the 24 year-old Lizzy
Idahosa, made more than £186,000 out of the Nigerian women, who
were terrified with black magic and made to see a witch doctor for a
sinister 'juju' ceremony, a court heard.
The
two victims, aged 23 and 29, had their pubic hair shaved and were
forced to eat live snakes and snails as part of the ritual before being
flown to Britain where they slept with men across the country.
Idahosa
was found guilty of trafficking the women at Cardiff Crown Court and
was jailed for eight years in November 2014 - while her husband Jackson
Omoruyi, 41, was sentenced to two years.
A Proceeds of Crime hearing revealed that Idahosa had profited by £186,400 from her sex ring.
But prosecutor Eugene Egan told Cardiff Crown Court that investigators could find only £21,900 in Idahosa’s bank accounts.
Judge Tom Crowther ordered Idahosa to pay the cash traced to her accounts - or face a further nine months in prison.
During
their trial the court heard that the two women were terrified into
doing what they were told because they believed the juju powers would
work.
Speaking
about her horrific ordeal, one 29-year-old victim said:
'It was not a
big snake, but it was alive.I just closed my eyes and put it in my
mouth.
'They
told me if I messed if up, I would get sent back to Nigeria and Lizzy
would kill me. I wanted to stop. I was ashamed of myself and I had no
life.'
'The couple
were involved in the exploitation of two women brought into the UK from
Nigeria to work as prostitutes,' said Caroline Rees, prosecuting, during
the trial.
'They
were bound to this by something called a juju ritual. It was a
ceremonial ritual used to full effect to terrify both women into doing
what was demanded of them.
'It
was used to ensure compliance, secrecy, and they believed if they broke
the bond dire consequences would follow: illness, madness, infertility
or death.
'They genuinely believed the powers would work.'
The
offences came to light after police arrested a 23-year-old Nigerian
woman at the Ambassador Suite brothel in Cardiff, in June 2013.
When
the women arrived in the UK they were put to work as prostitutes,
working in brothels at massage parlours across England and Wales. They were told they had to give all the
money they earned to Idahosa, and believed the black magic curses would
make them go insane or die if they refused.
The woman
started to work as a prostitute and was forced to have sexual
intercourse with seven or eight men every day, working in brothels
across the UK, including in Cardiff and Swansea.
When interviewed, she claimed she had given Idahosa £45,000.
The
second victim told the court she had paid the defendants £31,400 over
two years after working in brothels in Cardiff, Swansea, Barking and
East Croydon, and said she had worked in South Wales for a year and
eight months.
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