A Ugandan High Court Judge has been found guilty of illegally bringing a young girl to the UK to be her unpaid housemaid.
Lydia Mugambe, a UN criminal tribunal judge and Oxford University law PHD student, has been found guilty of using her judicial status to facilitate the travel of a young Ugandan girl to Oxford to be her unpaid housemaid.
The 49-year-old had produced a fake employment contact for the girl’s work visa stating she would be a domestic servant for John Leonard Mugerwa, who at the time was the Ugandan high commissioner.
She then told the girl she would be working as her paid housemaid as well as a being free to find additional employment elsewhere.
However, the girl was never paid for her childcare work for the defendant and struggled to ‘hold down steady employment’ due to Mugambe ‘withholding her ID documents’.
Mugambe, of Lyne Road, Kidlington, has been on trial at Oxford Crown Court for several weeks with the trial starting on February 17.
After just over two days, a jury found her guilty of one count of each conspiring to do an act to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law by a non-UK national, arranging or facilitating travel of another person with a view to exploitation, requiring a person to perform forced or compulsory labour, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness.
Source: Oxford Mail