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JAIL FOR COUPLE WHO STOLE MAN’S YOUTH By Alan Oakley
A man who was brought as a child to Britain for a “better life” and had been held in captive servitude for 15 years has told how the police’s failure to respond to his appeal for help condemned him to a further nine years enslavement.
Gynecologist Emmanuel Edet, 61, and his wife, senior NHS nurse, Antan, 58, brought the Ofonime Inuk to Britain in 1989 when he was 14 years old, telling him they would educate him and provide financial support. Instead they forced him to work long hours for no pay and threatened him with deportation if he tried to escape. The couple took away his passport; adding him to their family passport as their son, Ofonime Edet, to get him into the UK. When, after fifteen years, he had reached the end of his tether and in 2004 decided to report his plight to local police, he was curtly given a lost property form and told to apply for a new passport.
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Antan (left) and Emmanuel Edet pretended 14-year-old Ofonime Inuk was their son to get him into the UK