A British doctor and his wife have been found guilty of keeping a young man as a slave for 24 years.
Emmanuel Edet, 61, a trained obstetrician, and his wife Antan, 58, a senior sister at a hospital, were each found guilty of cruelty to a child, slavery and assisting unlawful immigration.
The London couple will be sentenced at Harrow Crown Court on Wednesday.
Their victim Ofonime Sunday Inuk, now aged 40, had told the jury that he was paid nothing for the work he carried out - including looking after the couple's two children, cooking, cleaning and gardening.
The gently-spoken Inuk, who gave his evidence from behind a screen so that he could not see his tormentors, told the court that his passport was hidden from him for more than a decade, saying it was with Dr Edet.
The Edets changed the victim's name and added him to their family passport as their son when they first brought him to the UK in 1989.
He believed they would pay him for his work as a "houseboy" and would provide him with an education.
He was about 14 years old in 1989 when he left his native Nigeria with the Edets.
After the verdict Crown Prosecution Service lawyer Damaris Lakin described the abuse as "a shocking case of modern day slavery which has no place in our society."
"He was told by the Edets that if he left the house and reported matters to the police he would be arrested as an illegal immigrant and sent back to Nigeria," she said.
"He was made to work up to 17 hours a day, eat all his meals alone and have no social interaction with the family. He was made to sleep largely on the floor in hallways despite there often being a spare bedroom."
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