By South Wales Evening Post | Posted: March 08, 2016
Lizzy Idahosa
A woman who used black magic to traffic other women to brothels in the UK, including Swansea, has been ordered to pay back more than £20,000 out of her profits.
Lizzy Idahosa, aged 26, used "juju" sex rituals to force women to work as prostitutes.
She arranged for two women, aged 23 and 29, to see a Nigerian witch doctor, who made them take off their clothes and eat snakes and snails.
They were then sent to Britain - working in massage parlours in Cardiff and Swansea - where they slept with men, and believed the black magic curses would make them go insane or die if they refused.
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Idahosa was jailed for eight years for offences including people trafficking in 2014 - and her husband Jackson Omoruyi, aged 41, was jailed for two years for money laundering.
A Proceeds of Crime hearing revealed that Idahosa had profited by £186,400 from her trafficking ring.
But prosecutor Eugene Egan told Cardiff Crown Court that investigators could find only £21,900 in her 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 bound by a juju ritual to terrify them into doing what was demanded of them because they believed the powers would work.
The ritual was used to ensure compliance and secrecy, and if broken dire consequences would follow - illness, madness, infertility or death.
The pair were eventually found by immigration staff at a brothel in Cardiff.
The court heard the victims had been exploited and abused in the most brutal manner.
Omoruyi was ordered to pay a nominal £10 because the court heard he had no money left out of his illegal profits.
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