A Ugandan woman who served as a “criminal judge” for the United Nations has been convicted of enslaving a woman.
Prosecutors said that Ugandan judge Lydia Mugambe “exploited and abused” her victim and forced her to work as a maid, the Independent reported.
Mugambe, who is also a High Court judge in Uganda, was found guilty on Thursday of conspiring to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law, facilitating travel with a view to exploitation, forcing someone to work, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness following a trial at Oxford Crown Court.
Caroline Haughey KC, prosecuting, told jurors during the trial: “Lydia Mugambe has exploited and abused [her alleged victim], taking advantage of her lack of understanding of her rights to properly paid employment and deceiving her as to the purpose of her coming to the UK.”
Jurors accepted the prosecution’s case that Mugambe – who was studying for a law PhD at the University of Oxford – had engaged in “illegal folly” with Ugandan deputy high commissioner John Leonard Mugerwa in which they conspired to arrange for the young woman to come to the UK.
The woman who this “judge” enslaved said she felt “stuck” and “lonely” and was not allowed to leave.
Liberals hate slavery… unless they are the enslavers.
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