Ofonime Sunday Inuk, now 40, was brought from Nigeria to Britain in 1989 by couple who forced him to work unpaid for up to 17 hours a day.

A couple who kept a man in servitude for almost a quarter of a century after illegally bringing him to Britain have been jailed for six years each.

Emmanuel Edet, 61, a former NHS obstetrician, and Antan Edet, 58, a midwife, kept Ofonime Sunday Inuk as a “houseboy” after telling immigration officials he was their teenage son when they arrived from Nigeria in 1989.

Over the next 24 years Inuk worked unpaid up to 17 hours a day looking after the couple’s two sons, cooking, cleaning and gardening. For long periods of time he had to sleep on a hall floor.

He eventually managed to alert a charity to his plight after the couple went to Nigeria for Christmas in 2013, and they were arrested the following March.

Sentencing them at Harrow crown court on Monday, the judge Graham Arran said their treatment of Inuk, now 40, had left him “conditioned” to his plight.

The judge said: “He was conditioned to the extent that he did not ask for what he wanted because he expected his request to be refused. He was paid the occasional pocket money of perhaps £10. He claims that that was only at Easter and Christmas, and occasionally visitors would give him larger sums. He most certainly was not paid for the work that he was performing for you.....

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Take them to the gallows

datz y i luv jungle justice

They should just transfer all the couples wealth and properties to the guy after all he was their son in 1989 and should still be