How far would you go to get your sick child a kidney transplant?

Here is your dilemma. Imagine you have a university-age daughter who has developed kidney failure. She needs a transplant. You know that the best results are obtained when the operation is performed at a transplant unit with access to the best immunosuppressive drugs, when the kidney is taken from a living donor, and especially when that donor is young and from a similar ethnic background to the recipient. Like most parents, you will go to almost any lengths to help your child – but would you break the law?

Ike Ekweremadu thought that the risks of breaking the law in the UK were worth taking to gain the best outcome for his daughter. His plan failed, and on 23 March he, his wife Beatrice and their middleman, Dr Obinna Obeta, a Nigerian doctor living in Southwark, were found guilty of transporting a young man from Nigeria for purposes of organ donation in violation of the Modern Slavery Act.