A woman who was found guilty of trafficking two women from Nigeria to the UK to work in the sex trade has been jailed for eight years.
Lizzy Idahosa, 24, arranged for the women to be put through a ritualistic "juju" ceremony in Nigeria to make them afraid of disobeying her.
The judge at Cardiff Crown Court said she she kept them in "a kind of hell".
Her partner Jackson Omoruyi, 41, found guilty of money laundering offences, was jailed for two years.
Idahosa - who is heavily pregnant with Omoruyi's baby, and already has a young child with him - was found guilty of trafficking women to and around the UK after a trial last month.
A jury also found her guilty of inciting prostitution and money laundering.
Infertility fears
During the trial, the jury heard the trafficked women worked in brothels to repay Idahosa £50,000 for travel from Nigeria and false documents.
Both victims said that before travelling to London on the promise of a better life, they had been subjected to 'juju' rituals in which they ate snails and snakes, had their hair shaved, drank dirty water and were cut with a razor.
The victims, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said the rituals - sometimes known as voodoo or magic - left them fearing illness, madness, infertility and death.
Once in the UK, they were moved around a number of brothels in Croydon, Stevenage, Brighton, Swansea and Cardiff and had sex with up to seven or eight men a day to pay off their "debts".
Culled from BBC
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