A notorious Nigerian brothel madam, based in the UK, Lizzy Idahosa, 24, who forced young girls to become sex slaves through “juju” ritual or “voodoo curses” and making them eat live snakes, has been ordered to pay back more than £20,000 of her profits.
She was nabbed in 2014 for trafficking a 23-year-old and a 29-year-old from Nigeria making more than £186,000 out of the two women, who were terrified with black magic and made to see a witch doctor, a court was told.
It’s understood that that the terrified victims were made to shave off their pubic hair, eat live snakes and snails as part of a sinister “juju” ritual. It was only after these that Lizzy Idahosa had the women flown to Britain and made to sleep with different men all across the country.
When the women arrived the UK, they started working as prostitutes in brothels at massage parlours across England and Wales. Ofcourse, they handed over the money they made to Idahosa fearing they would die or go mad if they didn’t.
Idahosa who has been found guilty of trafficking the women, was jailed for eight years at Cardiff Crown Court. Her husband and accomplice, Jackson Omoruyi, 41, also bagged two years for himself. It’s learnt that Idahosa had profited by £186,400 from her sex ring although investigators found just £21,900 in her bank accounts.
Eventually, the abused and exploited women were found by immigration staff at a brothel in Cardiff. One of the victims, said to be a 29-year-old 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 it 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.”
According to Caroline Rees, she told the trial while prosecuting:
“The couple were involved in the exploitation of two women brought into the UK from Nigeria to work as prostitutes.
“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.”
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